Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/28/07 20:24, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:16:52PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > [snip] >>> >> 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. >> >> 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. > > 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
