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Old 03-24-2011, 10:06 PM   #20 (permalink)
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in part from regenerative braking, or from the wall.

If it did not recapture braking energy (or occasionally allow use of a wall socket), hybrids would get really crappy mileage with all that dead weight and complexity.

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"uses an onboard rechargeable energy storage system "
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