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Old 03-25-2011, 06:08 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
A (non-plugin) Prius is a hybrid, right? Honda Insight and Civic are also hybrids, I'm fairly certain. They run only on gasoline -- all the electricity came from gasoline; or from regenerative braking which came from gasoline.

I think a hybrid is any vehicle that combines (hybridizes) two types of power sources. Two separate *energy* sources is possible with a hybrid, but using just one energy source doesn't exclude it from being a hybrid.
This makes the most sense to me.
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