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I agree with cfq83 about trying to keep the car design realistic, people in the Economoding community are special; we sacrifice things like comfort and the horsepower dripping sex appeal of a vehicle to go further on a gallon of gas.
Then there is completely opposite mind set out there, people driving Suburbans with 40” lift or 500 hp Mustang GTs as their daily drivers.
But people who live far away from their work and are the stereotypicaly Toyota Corolla drivers might want to switch to a car designed specifically for highway driving as long as it still looked and felt relatively normal.
I think a small diesel motor sized specifically to maintain 70 mph highway speed with an electric motor assist during acceleration is a way to go. It would be nice to have a system which uses the waste heat of the diesel motor to charge the batteries for the electric motor and keep onboard electronics online.
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