How can he say that the new civic is not a full hybrid. It will be able to go into electric mode under some circumstances. Just like the Prius does.

Both vehicles just pick a different range of speeds to go into EV mode.

As far as saying the Prius is more efficient because it has 2 motors and they are decoupled from the drive train, I would think that would actualy make it less efficient because power has to always be converted to electricity and then sent back to the motors and converted into mechanical energy. VS. IMA which will let you use mechanical energy directly from the engine.

We will have to see what comes of all this but I say with the current 1st gen IMA and the second gen HSD the HSD has a slight advantage but not a huge one. I think our friend John may be feeling buyers remorse soon enough because he doesn't look at the broad picture about what each system is good for.

Enough of my incoherant rant.

My hydroponics experiment

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