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Old 11-17-2012, 12:16 AM   #19 (permalink)
meanjoe75fan
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Could jamesqf (or anyone else) tell me what's inefficient about even only?

When I'm lucky enough to borrow mom's Fusion, I simply capture regent charge during the inevitable (I live in the Appalachians) descent, and run ev-only to the 50% SOC the Fusion likes to maintain.

That's better than efficient; it's effectively "found energy."

I agree that running EV is dumb--if you reasonably forsee having to burn Dino juice to recharge. I suppose if you lived somewhere billiard-table flat, you might almost never use EV optimally.

But if you live somewhere "steeper than the speed limit"?
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