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Old 02-22-2008, 07:35 AM
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Default Re: Rant of the Month
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Originally Posted by arbittan View Post
Performance based Hybrids would work very well for police/emergency cars in the States. The fact that they do sit idle for long periods of time would save a lot of gas. But one problem hybrids have right now is, if you put the car in park, the engine starts back up and stays on. GM needs to work on a way to have the engine cut off during long idle times...
But the cost issue?

Comparing a performance hybrid to a Vic I don't think every district can afford to replace with a hybrid fleet.

And if your just using autostop I'm not sure how well that will help. The Malibu gets only +1 mpg with AS.

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