On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:39:58PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:35:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Hybrids are not supposed to get great mileage on the highway. Their > > forte is stop-and-go city/suburb driving. > > > Which is why I said that they were surprised when the hybrid did not > live up to the manufacturer's outrageous claims for highway mileage and > then was even *less* for city driving. Of course, this was three years > ago. The technology may have improved a lot. > the reality of a hybrid is that its still using a gas powered engine to get the car down the road. sometimes it takes the power form the gas engine and sticks it in a battery for use later, but no matter *what* all the power going through the wheels of that car comes from a gas engine. Granted, its a smaller gas engine, in a smaller vehicle, with a little regegerative braking, but that's it. My uncles old chevy sprint *still* gets 50 mpg after over 200k miles on it. go figure. we could have cut our gas consumption a whole heck-of-a-lot a long time ago, had we so chosen. plug-in hybrid is what I see as the best option for US driving habits. efficiency short range, but long range capacity. A
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