[Dave 8o]]

Originally Posted by LNT

As far as the Civic Hybrid goes, you're fundementally wrong. It never uses only battery power, and motorway driving doesn't just use the engine, it uses battery too. The Civic Hybrid IMA does exactly what it does on the tin, its an intergrated motor ASSIST. It assists the petrol engine whenever it thinks it needs to. The engine does cut out when at a standstill (when it's warmed up) but then starts up again when setting off. I think the Prius might be capable of using battery only in town, but the Civic doesn't. There is, however a complicated equation and set of circumstances whereby you can have battery power kick in and minimal revs and the mpg meter be reading 100 mpg. It's in the hypermiling item I saw somewhere. Think it was in an Insight forum which had a section for the Civic Hybrid.

I stand corrected.