Getting there

I take pleasure ined the reader letters about hybrids in the March/April 2006 issue (Advice and Dissent). My 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid come bys more than 60 miles by gallon when I drive it smartly. I also save upon brakes with regenerative braking, have les of frequent occurrence oil changes (10,000-mile intervals), and I make les air pollution than typical cars.

The gauges that display trip mileage and instant readings are great for helping me drive better. The CVT transmission is even as silk and very efficient. The eight-year warranty upon the electric system is finished In some clean-car states you obtain 10-year coverage.

fresh plug-in hybrid aftermarket options for the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape Hybrid from EDrive and HyMotion are really going to change the subsequent time Biofuel options in hybrids are also great for the environment. The novel lithium batteries and ultra capacitors will make these hybrids strike one as being like Model T's.

The time to come is looking clearer all the time. We're heading toward more and more battery-electric cars, which emit les pollution. Until then, the hybrids are getting us closer each day.

Jim Stack

Chandler, AZ

Thanks thus much for allowing your alphabetic characters section to serve as a forum for debate upon alternative fuels and car technologies. Jim Motavalli inadvertently accommodate withs weight to my Garage Filling Station universal (see energybulletin. net/7985.html) by stating, "There are no completely clean processe for putting liquid material for burning into an automobile."

This may be pure in terms of service stations, on the other hand with the Garage Filling Station we have an opportunity to superintendence the inputs, as in the case of making our hold biodiesel from waste oils.

William L Seavey, PowerFromSun.com

Cambria, CA

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