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Originally Posted by Jason
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Which hybrids in particular? We typically don't add cars until there's demand. Also note that for the newest cars, you can add data but they aren't displayed on the main page.
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I was thinking of the Saturn VUE since there has been some activity. When I noticed the Silverado forum, I was thinking there would be a one-for-one relationship.
I'm not a great fan of hybrid-lite systems and at one time was thinking of asking if these should be treated as real hybrids. Then I realized that the best answer is to 'perform the experiment' and get real data for these vehicles out in a public forum where they can be compared and contrasted to what our current hybrids do.
The Dept. of Energy has mileage data from their fleet performance that would make excellent entries for the missing vehicle databases. For example, they have life-time Silverado performance data that I would have no problem with putting in the database (with attribution.)
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehicles...v_reports.html
In fact, let me ask if it would be OK to be the sponsor of the FreedomCar performance data? I could try to find a civil servant and ask them to put an entry in our database for their vehicles but this might take some time. It would be easier if I just 'created' the vehicle records, citing the source, and posted them as:
Dept_Energy_<model> -- result from the above web site
Bob Wilson