aeiou's thread and a show on ABC2 got me thinking
Submitted: Friday, Mar 14, 2008 at 18:18
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I saw the end of a program on ABC2 the other night that was looking at the yanks addiction to their SUVs. this is something that I feel that I also have as now I am on my 3rd 4x4, a hilux, 8o series and now a 3lt Patrol. any way they where talking about the cost of fuel and the fuel ecomony that is gaained from these type of cars.
One thing that I was a bit supprised at was that Ford had a hybrid Escape in the US that was geting some thing like 50
miles to the gallon , this got me thinking would I buy a hybrid 4x4?
As the coggs crunched and the wirred I relised trips such as the big lap or that more remote trip would become more achiveable as if we where able to get 50km to the litre by generation power for batteries for an electric moter just think how offen we would be off on a trip.
I suppose then we would not be looking at putting in a larger sub tank but accually removing the main tank to use the space for some type of power cell, battery thingy and the my 35lt sub tank could take me 1750km, thats almost from
Perth to Adilade or
Broome on $53 worth of fuel
Also relised that if we did have batteries for this we could get rid of the need for duel batteries and be able to run fridges ect just from the
reserves in the cars batteries and there would be no more warm beer.
well after some contempaltion the answer is yes, I would buy a hybrid 4x4 if it was able to delver the same performace.
How about You?
Reply By: Axel [ the real one ] - Saturday, Mar 15, 2008 at 17:45
Saturday, Mar 15, 2008 at 17:45
What beer have u been drinking ? your maths is way way out , ,, your 35lt subtank = 7.7 gallons and at 50
miles to the gallon you get 385
miles = 616 klm ,, nowhere near 1750klm ,, sober up ole son ,,, lol.
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