Hybrids are not toys

 I’m on the road quite a bit making deliveries. 

I purchased a hybrid car that slowed down massive gas consumption. New was over 60 miles per gallon, it was phenomenal! After several hundred miles, it now averages about 40-50 mpg on street. 

This model of hybrid was also designed and built light with a tiny engine, gas consumption being foremost in mind, and it worked. 

It’s street legal but NOT freeway legal, or shouldn’t be. 

 Even tho I now avoid freeways like the plague, I can’t recall seeing that many hybrids on freeways. Streets are packed with Teslas and hybrids, not on freeways. 

There is a graph on the dashboard, when the engine works too hard, the graph goes into the red. Ignore it all u like, but when the engine starts banging like it’s trying to hop out of its cage, ignore that at your own risk, I’m not.  If u can afford a new hybrid every few years, u can afford to overwork a tiny, gas-saving engine. 

Certainly there are many hybrids on highways, but I have yet to see a single one on that 2-lane freeway with no shoulders, potholes, and a speed limit of 70 miles an hour. 

Drivers who honk at hybrids barely making the speed limit, educate yourself. 

Google it, and it’s not easy to find because it’s NOT a good selling point. 

I’m impressed with hybrids and what we put up with. 

         

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