Doctor Drivel wrote:
John Williamson wrote:
Doctor Drivel wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:21:39 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

And I can use air con, heated seats, headlights and windscreen
wipers without worrying that I'll never get to my destination. I
can also cross Europe in just over a day - that will happen with
the Leaf.

It does with the Ampera

Only by using the fossil fuel engine to keep the battery charged. In
which case, why not just use a simpler internal combustion engined
vehicle?

You are very slow. As the name implies, "hybrid". Full EV in cities and
when you go long distance occasionally the car runs on the genny and
still gets 60mpg.

And I can get 70mpg on a run in a number of small cars without the extra
costs of the hybridity. If I want to drive more than 60 miles or so in
an Ampera, I need to run the engine all the time once the battery goes
flat. I also need to plug the Ampera in every night, whereas at the
moment, I fuel up my car once a month.

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Tciao for Now!

John.