I have seen articles like this in the past that have been written by people who know nothing about hybrids! We bought our TCH last year and got a $2,800 tax credit instead zero as listed. Our gas mileage is much better that 34 mpg. They should take into account other factors like brake replacements. A conventional car will have its brakes replaced 2 times at cost of $300 each when the TCH will not have any brake replacements in the first 100,000 miles. You never see that listed in any payback model.

So our pay back is today one year later. Timing could not be better.

Bill