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Yes thats what I posted on page 1. A small diesel aggregate is atm still the best solution.
The thing is, hybrid cars depend on their batteries and batteries decay over time. There is a lot of reasearch going on in that field but the current batteries in hybrid cars, only live for like 1 maybe 2 years and after that you need to change them.
The Prius and other cars, use an electric engine for the power train. A diesel / gasoline aggregate is only used to recharge the battery. Similiar hybrid cars use 4 separated electric engines, which are built into the wheels. But those concepts are more prone to fail over time of use.
If you have such a site with people comments about cars, like Pink suggested, I would make use of it.
In my personal and professional opinion as an engineer, I can tell you, dont buy a hybrid car, they are not really ready yet. The thing about battery decay will very soon start to bug you, when driving such a car.
The best alternative atm is a small diesel engine. If you use a small diesel engine built by VW for example, you can fuel it with biodiesel aswell. Dont know if you have such sorts of gas. Biodiesel though is no real alternative in the long run, because its made of plants poorer countries need to feed themselves and so you take away their food supplies by fueling your car with biodiesel. Therefore there is the opportunity to build an additional gas tank into you car and fuel it with compressed gas. Thats called an LPG tank (Liquified Petroleum/Propane Gas). Those things sound dangerous but are safe and they reduce your gasoline consumption significally, amortizing itselves after 1 year of use.
A nice car, which is equipped to use this LPG technology and whose aggregate and powertrain are build by VW (its an aggregate + powertrain that has been used for more than 20 years) is this one:
GreenLine Škoda Auto - Škoda Fabia -
I drive the 105 HP version myself and the car costed around 22000 dollar. You can get the smallest engine (with a lot of extras that doesn't cost you) around 16000 dollar. Its all VW technology, from around the year 2006 - 2008 and its really a great car, feels like a Mercedes sometimes (cause it does look fancy in black)
P.S.: the mileage of the Fabia greenline btw is 4.1 l/100 km which is around 58 mpg. And its still equipped with a 4-cylinder turbo-diesel so its got some power and doesnt drive boring
P.P.S.: the greenline doesnt have a LPG tank, but one can be added to it. Then you can increase your mpg even more. Costs around 1000 dollar extra and gives you easily 20-40 additional mpg
The thing is, hybrid cars depend on their batteries and batteries decay over time. There is a lot of reasearch going on in that field but the current batteries in hybrid cars, only live for like 1 maybe 2 years and after that you need to change them.
The Prius and other cars, use an electric engine for the power train. A diesel / gasoline aggregate is only used to recharge the battery. Similiar hybrid cars use 4 separated electric engines, which are built into the wheels. But those concepts are more prone to fail over time of use.
If you have such a site with people comments about cars, like Pink suggested, I would make use of it.
In my personal and professional opinion as an engineer, I can tell you, dont buy a hybrid car, they are not really ready yet. The thing about battery decay will very soon start to bug you, when driving such a car.
The best alternative atm is a small diesel engine. If you use a small diesel engine built by VW for example, you can fuel it with biodiesel aswell. Dont know if you have such sorts of gas. Biodiesel though is no real alternative in the long run, because its made of plants poorer countries need to feed themselves and so you take away their food supplies by fueling your car with biodiesel. Therefore there is the opportunity to build an additional gas tank into you car and fuel it with compressed gas. Thats called an LPG tank (Liquified Petroleum/Propane Gas). Those things sound dangerous but are safe and they reduce your gasoline consumption significally, amortizing itselves after 1 year of use.
A nice car, which is equipped to use this LPG technology and whose aggregate and powertrain are build by VW (its an aggregate + powertrain that has been used for more than 20 years) is this one:
GreenLine Škoda Auto - Škoda Fabia -
I drive the 105 HP version myself and the car costed around 22000 dollar. You can get the smallest engine (with a lot of extras that doesn't cost you) around 16000 dollar. Its all VW technology, from around the year 2006 - 2008 and its really a great car, feels like a Mercedes sometimes (cause it does look fancy in black)
P.S.: the mileage of the Fabia greenline btw is 4.1 l/100 km which is around 58 mpg. And its still equipped with a 4-cylinder turbo-diesel so its got some power and doesnt drive boring
P.P.S.: the greenline doesnt have a LPG tank, but one can be added to it. Then you can increase your mpg even more. Costs around 1000 dollar extra and gives you easily 20-40 additional mpg