January 24, 2007
The Also-Rans in the Hybrid Race.
It looks like Saturn
is developing a hybrid, after all: Attila the Hub mentioned this to me, and I assumed he'd somehow gotten it wrong. Because I know everything, you see: surely I would have known
that.
The GM idea of plugging in the car into a regular outlet is intriguing, but it seems to me that feature is only useful if the car can run entirely without gasoline—if the battery can carry the entire load from time to time.
The Business Week article glosses over the fact that Ford got into the hybrid game before GM did, but it makes a good point about how Ford's Escapes and Explorers get better gas mileage than Toyota's comparable vehicles.
Even with gas prices going down, I just don't think people are in the mood to pay a lot for gasoline: it's something the right and the left can largely agree upon these days.
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Developing? yes, I'm sure. You can also purchase a Greenline Vue for about $25K, which is an electric/fuel hybrid, which so far as I know works on the same priciple as the Prius.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at January 24, 2007 06:29 AM (1hM1d)
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The Saturn Greenline Vue (available since late 2006) offers an assist from an electric motor that gives about a 20% bump in fuel economy. The system never lets the (small) electric motor do all the work, unlike other hybrids. This allows Saturn to sell their "hybrid-lite" version for about $2000 more than the standard model versus $3500-$8000 for its competitors.
Posted by: Darrell at January 24, 2007 01:33 PM (+IU6j)
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The Saturn Greenline Vue (available since late 2006) offers an assist from an electric motor that gives about a 20% bump in fuel economy. The system never lets the (small) electric motor do all the work, unlike other hybrids. This allows Saturn to sell their "hybrid-lite" version for about $2000 more than the standard model versus $3500-$8000 for its competitors
Posted by: Darrell at January 24, 2007 01:36 PM (+IU6j)
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