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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
A non hybrid can do just as well if not better than a hybrid when driven in such a way that energy potentially recouped from regen braking is minimal.
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The point is that driving in that way is not practical, or often even possible, in much of the real world. (For instance, the part that has mountains :-)) So what we see here, in actual real-world experience, is that hybrids get better fuel economy than the nearest non-hybrid equivalent.