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Old 05-04-2006, 12:47 PM
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Default Re: Car & Driver Review Now Online

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Originally Posted by Jacky
The Camry Hybrid looks like a great car (leaps and bounds better than the 06 Accord Hybrid, which is a joke of a car), but in my opinion the trend should be bigger and stronger battery packs that give you ridiculously high gas mileage and performance. Not battery packs that give you a whopping 5MPG more than the regular version. I guess I just had too high of hopes for the Camry Hybrid.
Bigger battery packs won't matter that much because you still have to recharge it. If you double the battery capacity, it's worthless in the long run unless you somehow double the amoung of energy you can get back through regeneration (without decreasing fuel economy in the process) and that's the tricky part.

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