To: antiRepublicrat
Even the column heading is screwed-up. Is it backwards?
Toyota Prius: 60 City? 51 Highway ?
To: He'sComingBack!
The inertial recovery (braking system) actually works more efficiently in stop and go traffic.
28 posted on
05/14/2007 12:27:33 PM PDT by
kinoxi
To: He'sComingBack!
Even the column heading is screwed-up. Is it backwards? Toyota Prius: 60 City? 51 Highway ?No. Hybrids get better mileage in the city because they run mostly on electric below 35 mph - at least the Ford Escape Hybrid does. On the road the hybrid uses gasoline only.
29 posted on
05/14/2007 12:28:24 PM PDT by
50mm
(algore uses 20 times as much energy as me)
To: He'sComingBack!
Wind resistance increases by the square of the speed of the vehicle — it’s 4 times worse at 60 mph than at 30 mph.
Stop and go city driving uses up energy to accelerate the vehicle’s mass. Hybrid vehicles recover part of that energy when braking — therefore, they can get better mileage in the city than on the highway.
To: He'sComingBack!
Even the column heading is screwed-up. Is it backwards?
Toyota Prius: 60 City? 51 Highway ?
Lots of cars do well on milage in the city. I have an 89 Jag XJS V-12 that recently got 45MPG. Ofcourse there were factors that helped. I think we pushed the car about 40 of those miles when no gas was used. The 5mpg registered when I started it up after repairs.
62 posted on
05/14/2007 7:19:22 PM PDT by
Joan Kerrey
(Believe nothing of what you hear or read and half of what you see.)
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