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Originally Posted by gray52
thats right jazzman, a diesel does more miles to the gallon so less carbon, but the fuel is dear to buy, and the road tax used to be £5 dearer than a petrol with the same emissons. drive a lexus in london and save £8 a day, just because it has an electric motor, but if the battery is flat then run that big polluting engine, nice!!!
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IMO in a urban environment is where Hybrid technology works. Electric is far more efficient in stop start then combustion. Even if the engine does start to charge the batteries it does it efficiently and the regenerative brakes increase that.
From Oct the London Con Charge (no I have not shortened the word congestion
) is purely based on emissions, so Lexus owners will have to pay, they must be gutted
. But on the plus side, if they were standard petrols, they would be paying £25 a day.
Civic Hybrid, Prius (although not Prius mk1) and Toyota Aygo owners (the other half's car) can cross our beautiful capital city for free!!