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Foregt the hybrids unless she is doing a lot of highway driving. If she is doing city driving there is very little benefit to owning one.

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This is definitely backwards.

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really? i thought the hybrids use mostly gas in the city and electric when up to speed on the highway? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Yeah, youve got it backwards. They use more battery in city and more gas-engine on highway.

The main benefit of hybrids is their regenerating capabilities through braking. Energy that is normally just lost as heat instead goes into charging the batteries when you apply the brakes. Hence in stop-and-go driving the batteries are charged and then utilized more.

FWIW hybrids do get excellent mileage on the highway (due largely to their tiny engines). They just get somewhat better mileage in the city.

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whoops, i left out regeneration in my post. excellent point. probably one of the 'coolest' features.

Ford escape and 30k in the same sentence.....

Surprised nobody thiks this is asinine.