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Originally Posted by LostCause
As for the differences, my guess is that they want to distinguish their efforts by making "fuel economy" version of their cars. Any business's practices (however odd) pretty much boil down to one issue: making money. Fuel economy sells now.
- LostCause
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I think you are probably right. Marketing determines this, not real world benefits. The first truck hybrid system was a complete waste of time in my mind, an engineering project for GM. They actually return quite a bit worse fuel economy on the highway than the equivelant conventional truck, I have had the pleasure of trying to explain to angry customers why thier hybrid gets worse fuel economy than their previous truck...
At least this new mild hybrid system can provide some assist. The one in the older trucks didn't even do that!
But the new two-mode hybrid system coming up looks like the real deal.