If your commute is a lot of stop and go stuff with long periods of stop or very slow driving, it pays off. The more long high speed driving you do, the less value the hybrid is going to have.
This is a joke, right? While hybrid mpg does drop at higher speeds, my other car gets 25mpg at 80 sustained cruise, while my Prius gets 43mpg at 80 sustained cruise. On a long trip, getting an extra 100 miles before filling up on a
smaller fuel tank gives me more value than the stop-n-go where I'd fill up the other car at most weekly anyways.
I expect that a civilian buying a hybred thinking they are saving energy or getting a good deal is going to get stuck. The technology just isn't that good.
Oh yes, you're SO right. I'm getting "stuck"
only getting 50-52mpg on every tankful, in a 4dr car that can actually handle 4 people and shopping bags, rather than 20-25mpg for my other car that holds 2 people and a couple of bags of groceries at most. The technology sucks, you're right.
I'm obviously NOT saving energy driving the car that gets double or more the mpg than the other one. It's just my
imagination.
