my take on these is that no the milage doesnt make sence,neither does the replacement cost/ reliability issues, especially if you live out here where i do, heck if i want a take out breakfast, its a 30 mile round trip. the sellig point for hybrids is that there "trying" to develop a vehicle that runs on something other than gas, not a new idea at all, as railroad locomotives have been sucessfully doing that since the late 1940's, or early 1950's BUT, locomotives do it different, they dont use batteries to help the engine pull the load, they use a engine to run a generater, which provides the electricity to power the wheel motors on the locomotive, anybody who has seen the diesel engine inside a locomotive would be taken back by the sheer size of the thing, but the engine itself does not have the power to pull the load the locomotive has to move, so the engine just provides the power to run the generater,which then powers individual wheel motors, if auto makers could adopt that idea for a change, [ espically since the railroaders have worked out all the kinks over the last 60 + years...] imagine a small say 2 cylinder diesel engine driving a generater which then drives individual wheel motors, we have, probably bumping 60 and more mpg, all wheel drive, with traction control, less emmissions due to the engines small size, adaptable to any size vehicle just by increasing or decreasing the units size, and still just 1 regular battery to start the diesel engine, now if they could just put it in a "manly looking" car ... what do y'all think?
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