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Originally Posted by Vman455
Trucks are the next big frontier for FE, in my opinion, or should be. With even full-size passenger cars like the Camry and Accord getting 40+mpg highway today, and truck sales increasing, there's more difference to be made in getting gas trucks up to 30mpg highway/25mpg combined than further improving passenger cars. We'll save more fuel in real numbers.
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I've been arguing that they should have been the first frontier, not the last.
Hybrid technology pays higher dividends the heavier the vehicle is. The worlds first modern hybrid was... the Insight, busting the scales at 1,878 lb (852 kg). The guys on here are always reporting that their Insight with a dead traction battery returns the same fuel economy as when it worked, only it accelerates worse.
So how did we end up pioneering hybrid technology in the vehicles that are most difficult to cram the extra bits into while giving the least return for the effort?
My fear is that we're too ignorant to realize that taking a truck from 15 MPG to 20 MPG saves way more fuel than taking a sedan from 40 MPG than 50 MPG.