Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 02/28/07 20:24, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:16:52PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
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>> I know what you mean. I drive a '97 Mazda. I get 33-36 MPG in mixed
>> city/highway (daily commute and such) and closer to 40 MPG on road
>> trips where it's nearly all highway.
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>> I find it hilarious that some people I know have purchased hybrids at
>> horribly inflated prices (oooh, but they got a tax break, so it's OK)
>> based on the greatly overblown fuel economy numbers pushed by the
>> manufacturers. When reality hit and they realized they were *lucky* if
>> they got 45 MPG highway and even less in city driving, they were less
>> than impressed.
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> Hybrids are not supposed to get great mileage on the highway. Their
> forte is stop-and-go city/suburb driving.
There's no reason they shouldn't get good mileage on the highway as well,
though. Railroads went diesel-electric hybrid back in the 1960s with their
locomotives because of it's long-distance fuel economy.
> The lack of transmission in hybrid vehicles has always troubled me.
There's a transmission, it's just electrical instead of mechanical.
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