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Originally Posted by kenchan
not sure if honda's that much "behind" considering the hybrid civics and even accords, right? im not very familiar with hybrid cars but thought i saw regular sedans using hybrid technology.
im not much of a fan of cars using large batteries as alternative source cause it's just a bigger piece of trash we need to worry about later on down the road. i think clean diesel is more realistic for me.
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Indeed. I'd probably choose a TDI over a hybrid, especially if they got comparable mileage.
The diagram of how a prius battery is made (and where it has to be shipped--in part or in whole) makes me quite sad, which would most-likely motivate me to get a TDI. Wish there were more of them in the US and they didn't cost >$23,000 starting.
Keeping my eye on that Golf TDI in the works (and reportedly coming here).
Still, if there were a clean diesel hybrid that got 80-100mpgs, I'm not sure I could resist it, battery or no. Guess I'd have to see how it was made.
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