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Old 06-10-2013, 03:38 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by some_other_dave View Post
BTW, most hybrids are harder to hypermile because some of the standard techniques are built in, and because hybrids tend to be very optimized for the particular driving conditions that the engineers think they will see. So when you operate outside of those conditions, you can easily "fall off the curve" of best efficiency.

-soD
Apparently, we were posting simultaneously.

I will worry about hypermiling a hybrid when I achieve comparable results with a normal car, but that is a very interesting point!
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