On Sat, 15 May 2004, tmiller wrote: > Hybrids? Are you kidding? Now you have two drive trains to maintain. > The conventional gas or diesel system, and the electric one. Well, sort of. The ones I've seen are combined from the transmission on, so it's not two complete drive trains, just two prime movers. > Can you imagine troubleshooting one of these cars? And the > repair costs? Nobody talks about that. We'll see. People used to make the same points about fuel injection and say it'd never catch on, that carburators were superior because they were easier to fix.
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