Hybrids Not So Hot After Fuel-Economy Changes
By Julia A. Seymour | February 23, 2007 | 17:12
The media adore hybrid automobiles for the gas mileage and the green factor, but changes in fuel-economy beginning in 2008 will hit hybrids hard.
“Toyota’s Prius, best-known and best-selling gas-electric car in the USA, drops to 48 miles per gallon in the city under the ’08 testing procedure, from a 60 mpg rating under the current system – a 20% decline. Its highway mileage rating falls about 12%, to 45 mpg,” USA Today reported on its front page February 23.
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This is just a test it
Submitted by nicopatterno on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 10:44pm.
This is just a test it depends on how the car drive's the car. Although the car runs on its electric motor on a stand still, once the driver push his put to the pedal and starts accelerating fast the car would just consume the same as ordinary cars. There are only few alterations on the engine like it does not need short ram intake or any other car components to make the car faster.