Harbach Jak wrote:
JED; You would be absolutely correct about PICKENS & Hybrid Heavy Trucks if those trucks were TRUELY HYBRID. They are not though. Most of the latest socalled HYBRID HYPE out of Detroit is mostly 'Bull.' With a few 'tweeks' to the mostly samo-samo designed power-trains these 'new' so-called hybrids are nothing but the same old gasoline-only stuff getting a very 'few' more miles to the gallon.
I believe you are referring to pickup trucks and the like, known as "light hybrid" or "meaningless hype." These are only marginally more efficient than ordinary trucks. However, the tractor trucks ordered by the Coca-Cola Company are 30% more efficient and this can only be accomplished with an actual hybrid configuration as far as I know.
- Jed
