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Old 03-02-2015, 12:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
cowmeat
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Are hybrids really any more fuel efficient than a regular full time gasoline burning car?
I struggled long and hard to reach 60 mpg in my Festiva. There are only a couple of people on this site (a site dedicated to ecomodding) who regularly get anything over that in their straight-up ICE's, and most of those cars are practically unrecognizable from their OEM state to get that kind on mpgs.

The day I bought my first Insight and drove it home I got stuck in a traffic jam and a rainstorm and had the AC blasting, and still managed to average 61 mpg. Since then I have learned to drive the Insight better and average in the high sixties, tank after tank.

There's a reason the Gen-1 Insights top the list of teams in the challenge. Not sure what your question really is.
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