| Re: Why are SUVs and Christianity similar?
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:26:15 GMT, Bill Baka <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote:
>I give in to your logic that hilly terrain will use more gas, but that
>might (maybe) be a place where a gas--electric hybrid could save gas. If
>the down hill parts are steep enough to need the brakes then a hybrid
>could recharge on those parts. Those hills really do mess up the mileage.
>There probably won't be a car that can do it all in the near future.
A hybrid pretty much recharges off and on all the time in the real
world, in places where a gas only car is inefficient. If you turn on
the display, you start noticing all the times that your gas engine
works harder and when it is essentially coasting and charging the
battery. Even flat country is covered with small hills and
wind-protected stretches. I get recharge areas on U.S. 50 going into
Washington, DC that look flat.
Just like riding a bike - what the auto only crowd thinks is flat a
cyclist knows is actually a four mile uphill steep enough to take a
few mph off your speed and pretty much kill most coasting.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
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