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Originally Posted by serialk11r
I don't know where you live but I think most people don't need to deal with big hills on a regular basis.
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East side of the Sierra. I don't know about most people - some folks stay in Kansas all their lives - but there are a lot of people who do.
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Some of the hills in San Francisco are so steep that if I engine brake down in 1st gear (I have 4.3 rear diff C56, 1.8L, 2170 ish pounds so the braking is *very* strong) I keep accelerating until the engine reaches over 4000 rpm :O Does that mean all cars should have hybrid racecar like regenerative braking capability?
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Sure. First, some of the hills in San Francisco may be steep, but they are not particularly high - a quick look at the map shows nothing over 1000 ft in San Francisco itself. Even further south, going over 17 to Santa Cruz doesn't even get to 2000 ft. OTOH, when I used to travel to San Jose via 88, I could darn near coast from the summit west of Silver Lake into Jackson. Now a really efficient hybrid would have enough energy capacity that if I had charged it at home, it would have been nearly empty at Carson Pass, and fully charged again at the valley floor.
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The more energy capacity you put in, the more cost, mass, and volume is used. What I'm saying is that not many people will have much of a use for the extra capacity.
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Of course, but this also applies to engine horsepower.
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In a city environment that would already be massive overkill.
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So who cares about city environments? In a city, if you're so unfortunate as to have to live in one, you should either bike or take public transport.