Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I run a Prius, I bought it because I am fascinated by the technology rather than for fuel consumption. My wife runs a VW Gold Tdi. The fuel consumption of these two is similar. In fact, despite the fact that dealers sell the Prius on consumption, and many owners run the car on foolishly high tyre pressure to get even better, the objective of the Prius operating software is minimum pollution, it could be a touch more economical if pollution was allowed to increase. Frank On 27 Oct, 2008, at 21:08, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote: > Henning Wulff wrote: > >> 3. Hybrids ... tend to be more expensive up front, and rarely >> repay the increased capital cost. > > True but the fuel consumption figures, not the NPV of the capital > cost + > O&M over the car's life cycle, are what sell cars. Kind of like how > megapixels sell cameras but don't mean much w.r.t. image quality. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com ? Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on > Microsoft? > Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information