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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 2159809" data-attributes="member: 11064">It all depends on what you are using the hybid car for. On long distance driving, they get only a bit better mileage, as the gasoline engine does the majority of the work. On short, in town, stop and go traffic, they get a vastly improved gas mileage because the electric motor is in use  more often (the electric motor takes over when stopped and at low speeds, >10mph I think). It also depends which hybrid car you are talking about. The Honda Element gets much better mpg than the Toyota Prius or Honda Civic Hybrid, but the Element also weighs about 2/3 the weight of the other two. Different mileage for different cars used for different purposes. As for the 2mpg difference in particular, that was the number that Ford was throwing around for it's hybrid SUV last year. I never understood why they would want to make a point of saying "Our hybrid engine gets 2 MPG MORE than our standard engine!" Heck, a good tuneup will often give you 2mpg more. <img src="http://www.iamviet.com/forum/images/smilies/smilie_yellow_icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Then there was a hybid pickup truck that someone (Chevy?) was promoting but I don't think it actually went into production. It was going to have electric outlets in the bed for use on construction site to plug power equipment into. Great idea, except the major point of a hybid engine is to improve gas mileage. The truck actually got LESS mpg with the hybrid engine than the standard engine. Sure, slightly less emissions, but for the added cost, you could just buy a generator to use for power equipment (of course, then there are two engines putting out emissions...)</blockquote>

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