Does your car get up to 250 miles per gallon?

[iblis]

Apparently, a few of these do.

(as seen on /.)

[creapyrob]

that car may be getting 250 MPG but its supplementing its power with wall juice.

It's like going on an 'all liquid diet' but you put a ham n cheese omlette, hashbrowns, coffee, two biscuits, gravy, grits, and OJ in the blender and drinking it. Yes its a liquid but its still a 6,000 calorie meal.

So if you're getting power from the gas engine and from the wall you'll have to average the kw/hr.s generated from the wall and the motor to get a true fuel to distance number.

[iblis]

Yes. That's the point of a hybrid car - using a supplement to gasoline. And as far as I'm concerned, the less petrol used, the better. The gas prices aren't going to go down. At least, not to what they used to be.

That, and less petrol-based fuel consumption means less emissions that bust a cap in the environment.

Besides, the wall juice can be supplemented by both the flywheel (what they're calling 'regenerative breaking'), and if you're a real geek, you could also mod in some solar cells to give it a recharge while it's sitting inert in the parking lot of where ever you work.

And, as always: if you're not a real geek, then you don't matter.

[creapyrob]

That, and less petrol-based fuel consumption means less emissions that bust a cap in the environment.

So which is the lesser of 2 evils; petrol or coal?