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Old 04-13-2011, 02:52 PM   #30 (permalink)
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That's one way of looking at it I guess. The other way of looking at it is, they found a way to keep A/C running on a hybrid even with the engine shut down. A nice little plus for folks in the Arizona desert, or Houston TX, or any of a bazillion other places that are extraordinarily hot&humid and have people living in them who drive cars.
Isn't this the direction A/Cs are going anyway? In the old daze A/C compressors were either on or off. I thought that new A/C compressors vary their output based on cooling needs.

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