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Hybrids Make Little Sense for Highway Drivers, Study Shows

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edited September 2014 in General

imageHybrids Make Little Sense for Highway Drivers, Study Shows

Hybrid vehicles cost more without much benefit to the environment if you do the bulk of your driving on the highway, a new study shows.

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    agentorangeagentorange Member Posts: 893
    Didn't we already know this about hybrids? I see the other shocker is that aggressive driving screws your gas mileage. Who knew? ;)
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    texasestexases Member Posts: 10,711
    Pretty negative way of presenting what we've ALWAYS known - if you drive mostly freeway a hybrid isn't for you. EARTHSHAKING NEWS!

    Why isn't the headline: "City drivers stand to save 20%!!"?
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    financeman2financeman2 Member Posts: 5
    This article is a waste of binary....intellectually weak, with little value. Come on Edmunds, you can do better.
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    agentorangeagentorange Member Posts: 893
    I cannot believe that somebody at Carnegie Mellon University thought that this was not already common knowledge and needed to do a study. Doh!
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    shantanuthakurshantanuthakur Member Posts: 4
    The benefit of the hybrid is obviously in slower, stop and go urban traffic. When you're cruising on the highway at stable speed, there's little energy to be recaptured by the batteries.
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