Reply to post: Re: "plug-in hybrids, full electric or fuel cell cars"

Gas-guzzling Americans continue to shun electric vehicles as sales fail to bother US car market

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Re: "plug-in hybrids, full electric or fuel cell cars"

> virtually all taxis are Priuses.... they're quieter.

One of our neighbours has just traded her husbands XKR in for a i-Pace. It's quieter going up the road, but makes just as much noise come back down it. Going up the road in the morning the hubby was accelerating and you could hear the engine. Coming home he was just coasting and all you'd hear was the tyre noise. The EV's tyres make just as much noise as the thirsty V8's.

OK, a lot of taxis are rather noisier than a luxo toy in cruising around mode.

The great advantage of self charging/plug in hybrids is that you don't need to run the IC engine while stuck in traffic. This save a lot of dirty emissions. Back when I used to commute I often thought I'd be happy to have an very limited electric capability in my car, even if the car could do 20MPH for 10 miles on battery that would make a great improvement to a lot of the worse traffic related pollution, without adding hugely to the weight of the car.

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