On 24/10/2007, at 12:46 AM, Klaus Stock wrote: > >> ...and when you're accelerating hard, both the engine and the motor >> are working together. > > Right. People buy a hybrid Lexus to brag about their "green > attitude" and > yet happily kick the pedal to the metal to get most of the 400+ > horsepowers > which both electrical and internal combustion engine together achive.
Yep. Those V6 Lexi are just daft. > They > also do not count the gallons of jet fuel which are consumed when they > charge their batteries during the daytime (short term electrical > peak load > is often provided by jet turbine generators, which are much less > efficient > that the normal "base load" power plants). I did not think that the Lexus hybrid (or the Prius for that matter) could be charged from the mains as standard. Charlie. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
