The Truth About Cars
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Still, if you want Lexus quiet from your hybrids, you’ll need to, you know, buy a Lexus. Fuel economy is listed at 52 mpg across the board for city/highway/combined. mpg -- and the computer wasn't reset when I picked up the car. Some possibly suspect back of envelope math based on my notes showed about 48 mpg.
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 7, 2022
While in some cases it’s actually true (the most expensive of charge points vs. the most efficient of internal combustion cars, like my 2008 MINI Cooper Clubman that often gets almost 40 MPG), for the most part these are just hit pieces to sow controversy and generate revenue on ad-heavy websites. Finding the Chargers.
The Truth About Cars
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
It’s comfortable enough on a road trip, and the fuel economy is better than most non-hybrid compact crossovers. An unexpected road trip yielded indicated highway numbers closer to 38 mpg than the EPA’s 33 mpg highway rating. The interior is a comfortable place to spend a day driving.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 25, 2023
But is that good enough to lure in those who have long disdained the car as a wedge-shaped penalty box that existed only to lengthen the time between fill-ups? Toyota bumps the power by giving the hybrid a larger gas engine – it’s now 2.0-liters Toyota claims this brings 0-60 times up to 7 seconds for FWD cars and 7.2
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
JANUARY 28, 2009
Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? Prop 87 Missed Opportunity RAVs to Keep Rolling in LA Holiday EVangelism ZEVTech Saving RAVs Holiday EVangelism Who Killed the Electric Car? com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm 1 Point Reyes EVs Did You Know?
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 28, 2009
If you just set aside the fantasy goal of an electric car with the same or better performance than an ICE powered car then we could build utilitarian short range EVs now, and could have been doing this coninually since 1900 with lead-acid batteries. Lastly, hybrids & plug-in hybrids are an unfortunate diversion.
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