| | | While the hybrids are more efficient around town, they aren't more efficient in steady long distance motoring. Regenerative braking is trivial for people who drive efficiently.
The main problem with hybrids is the extra machinery which means they cost more than good old gasoline cars, with depreciation offsetting savings in fuel.
Now that governments are cutting free loot from other taxpayers, and not providing free roads, hybrids have lost that advantage too.
Then there's the maintenance cost. And with more things to go wrong as the car ages, end of life will come sooner. The straw that breaks the camel's back might be a bung battery, timing belt, spark plugs, or any of a thousand bits and pieces.
Taxi drivers around hilly towns get the most hybrid band for buck. Low mileage people get little benefit.
Pure electric with a small battery that can be swapped in 7 seconds is the way to move cars.
Huge heavy two ton cars to move seventy kilograms of human is absurd. One ton is too much. Cars could weigh 500 kg for single passengers and be luxuriously quiet, quick, safe, efficient, cheap.
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