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VIDEO: Do Hybrids Really Get Great Gas Mileage?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Energy, Environment, Law, Money, Video

I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t, but would car companies be stupid enough to have lied?

One man in California thinks they did and he’s filling a class action lawsuit against Honda.


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4 Responses to “VIDEO: Do Hybrids Really Get Great Gas Mileage?”

  1. Jimmy the Dhimmi Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 11:50 am

    If you consider the energy required and the environmental impact of mining, smelting, refining, and transporting all of the nickel that goes into those huge Prius batteries, as well as the procedures required to dispose of it when the cars are eventually junked, it begins to look like all these environmentalists have been duped.

    In fact, buying a Hummer might be more economical:

    Through a study by CNW Marketing called “Dust to Dust,â€Â? the total combined energy is taken from all the electrical, fuel, transportation, materials (metal, plastic, etc) and hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime of a vehicle. The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles – the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.

    The Hummer, on the other hand, costs a more fiscal $1.95 per mile to put on the road over an expected lifetime of 300,000 miles. That means the Hummer will last three times longer than a Prius and use less combined energy doing it.

  2. Dyre42 Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

    I had a prius for a rental and was able to drive from San Antonio Tx to Daytona Beach FL on a tank and a half of gas. So that 24 gallons for 1200 miles which averages out to 50 mpg.

  3. dan Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 2:51 pm

    oh great. more people quoting the chris demorro travesty of journalism.

    (which he himself referred to as, and i paraphrase, some crap i threw together in a half an hour to meet a deadline.)

    but hey. repeat it enough times, it gains credibility, right?

  4. TomFromMD Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 8:14 pm

    Jimmy: Do you really believe that the expected lifetime of a civilian owned Hummer is 300,000 miles, but that the expected life of a Prius is only 100,000? That “study” has been torn apart so many times it’s not even funny.

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