Hybrid Cars Don’t Work
According to this Wired article your hybrid car has been lying to you. Their gas mileage is grossly overestimated and is most likely worse than a normal gasoline engine. According to the Wired article, the Civic Hybrid is only getting around 31 mpg in actual everyday driving. Consumer Reports even puts the number lower, getting a sad 26 mpg in their real world tests. But the dealership will tell you that the hybrid will get 47 mpg. How come there is such a big difference? Well, the dealer’s number comes from the EPA, which gets the number from a simulated test which appears to overestimate the mpg of hybrid vehicles. The EPA tests are 19 years old and haven’t been updated to accurately estimate a hybrid car’s mileage. So, if a normal Civic gets 35 mpg and a hybrid only gets 26 mpg, why spend more money to get the hybrid? Until the EPA figures out how to come up with reliable numbers that reflect reality, I think we should all stick with regular gasoline engines and just carpool more often.
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