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Personally I'd prefer to see the focus on overall 'real' improvements rather than using Hybrids as a deceptive approach in selling cars. If a company is using the hybrid technology for a performance enhancement then let's be sure it is seen that way as adding a tiny battery and electric boost to an SUV isn't going to make a super efficient car out of it ... nor is it going to 'really' be cleaner in the long run. (ie. complexity, battery waste, etc) Hopefully most buyers understand what they are getting, but I'm doubting it. YMMV.
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I beg to differ. In fact, large SUVs, for someone who has a valid reason for having one (ie a large family with several children for example that couldn't fit in a smaller car), can save more fuel waste by having a hybrid system than an already efficient passenger car like the Civic (in terms of total number of gallons). As far as battery waste, most newer rechargable batteries are almost always recycled, and I don't see how mechanical complexity is necessarily dirtier.
Also, I see nothing wrong in using hybrid sytems in performance oriented cars -- they are still saving fuel, especially when compared to accomplishing the same perofrmance gain by adding more engine displacement to a conventional vehicle.