[Vwdiesel] Diesel vs hybrid

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/12/2006 6:01:50 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
toensing at wildblue.net writes:

> The basic idea is to build a hybrid that has a 40 mile battery range before 
> the engine starts up to recharge the batteries. Since a majority of trips 
> are less than 40 miles, you could upon reaching your destination or return 
> home, you could plug it in to recharge your batteries &not have to run your 
> engine burning fossil fuel at all.
> 

  Then again...  ;-)
  Here's an article I saw a couple days ago.  The comments after the end of 
the second article are interesting and a tad revealing as to why we don't 
really see any electric vehicles.
     Loren