-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 12:59, Paul Johnson wrote: > 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.
#1) Sure, compared to steam engines. #2) The size, complexity and work-load of a locomotive is slightly different than that of automobiles #3) Locomotives are *not* /hybrids/. >> The lack of transmission in hybrid vehicles has always troubled me. > > There's a transmission, it's just electrical instead of mechanical. ??? > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5zjlS9HxQb37XmcRAt6zAJ4oK5HI36pBsMhvcIq6nE8vUZ5oawCePHoY WRH/hl+l+ObLkTIPTA+IITo= =F4T1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
