• Question: With all of the technology on offer nowadays do you think hybrids are the most economical and energy efficient way of travelling nowadays?

    Asked by s4g34nd0n10n321 to Omar on 13 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by chola.
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      Omar Mustufvi answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      It depends greatly on the type of driving and also the type of hybrid. For example in city driving where there is a lot of stopping and starting then hybrids are great because they can recapture the energy from braking and use it again later. But when on long distances where there is not much stopping, then all you are doing is carrying extra weight in the form of a battery. Plug-in hybrids have much bigger batteries and hence you can travel further using the batteries alone, but this is still only around 20 miles at the moment. The ideal solution is a battery vehicle but there are hardly any charging stations around so it isn’t going to be practical for a few years.

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