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Originally Posted by florida_gators
Maybe I'm taking the easy way out, but the focus of defining a hybrid should be performance. While not all hybrids, like the Insight and Prius, have a comparable non-hybrid model, many cars do. I don't consider a vehicle that gets an extra 1-2 MPG from the non-hybrid model to be a hybrid regardless of what technology is used.
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True, there are other ways to improve MPG and make a green vehicle than hybrids.
Although the question would quickly become what kind of performance you want.
A Natural Gas vehicle or a bio-diesel vehicle are more green than a gasoline vehicle. This holds true no mater what the cost of the vehicle or the fuel or what kind of speeds and performance you get from the vehicle.
But of course the greenest vehicle is a Bicycle ... it is also the most efficient .... the cheapest .... if you have to drive in allot of traffic, it might be the faster too....
I think Hybrids are a nice way to baby step into more advanced technology... They improve your MPG today and push the envelope just a bit more.... bit by bit you keep improving.... so any hybrid would continue to push that envelope... even just making the auto-stop idle feature standard on all cars would be a massive improvement nation wide in fuel use and greening up the nations vehicle fleet a bit.
