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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.
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The 5 MPG advantage could be higher because of the Auto-stop feature, depending on how often and for how long you need to stop in your daily route.
A better battery package would also benefit more the people doing many stops and driving down/up hill roads.
Two sources of power and a computerized system to control them is a big advantage for hybrids. There will be hybrid tune-ups and performance improvements that will be distributed as new software releases. So far the technology advances have been mainly in mechanical and electrical systems, wait until more programmers get their hands on the software.