"Nomen Nescio" > wrote in message
...
> Hybrids are heavier than ordinary models. Energy requirements are
> inversely proportional to weight, no matter how tricked out the
powerplants
> are.
>
> A better approach is to go with conventional diesel or gasoline engines
> power and greatly reduce vehicle weight.

Wow, Nomen, did you just discover what the rest of us already knew?

>
> So, how do you trim a car down from 3500 pounds + to 1800? Easy. You use
> light weight materials like aluminum and carbon fibre, using mass
> production manufacturing methods to keep the cost competetive to the cast
> iron and steel lead sleds now the industry standard.
>

See http://www.miniusa.com, vehicle weight is 2500 you can buy them now.

If that's too heavy for you then go here http://www.zapworld.com/ and buy a
Smart Car
as soon as Zap finishes getting regulatory approval to sell them in the US.
Weight is
1500

> Car
> makers, all of them, have a century of shame carried on their shoulders
> when it comes to building fat cars.
>

Well, they needed to build all those fat cars to carry around lard-asses
like yourself.

Ted