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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Another GM good idea that looked good on paper.
This was from back in the day when GM just thought people wanted a hybrid badge on their vehicle to be cool and didn't actually care about fuel mileage.
If I remember right the real world driving showed the same or less highway milage as the non hybrid and most of the city mileage improvement was attributed to the auto start/stop tech.
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But part of that failure would be because nearly all driver would fail to understand how to use the system, and perhaps the system was not optimalized for their either. For example, if I had something like this in my Civic, I would use it heavily in electric only for initial launches from stops, for crawling around parkinglots, for stop/go traffic. And I would use the enhanced regen braking. I rig it for plug in. If I could to those things my FE would improve substantially.