alt.energy.renewable

"Jim" wrote in message
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> "Trygve Lillefosse" wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:53 GMT, "Jim" wrote:
>>> I'm hardly Joe Average and I don't see any sense in it unless maybe
>>> you
>>>live in Manhattan and never leave the island. Fossil fuels are the only
>>>thing we have now, and that's that. IMO.
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>> In a way, you are correct. Fully electrical cars have their limits.
>> But if you switched to a hybrid, like Honda Civic hybrid. My guess is
>> that your mileage would improve vastly.
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> There are about a dozen 40m hills between here and my 4 kids' school,
> 5km away. The traffic moves at about 80km/hr. The round trip would kill
> the charge in the car.

Break re-gen on the downside of the hills.

> And where would my daughter's cello fit in, hmmmm? Nope,

In a large hybrid it will fit in.