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Business Week provides a surprisingly
comprehensive primer on hybrid vehicles, answering ten myths that continue to surround the technology.
Some
of the myths addressed include:
- Hybrids need to be plugged in to recharge their batteries.
- Hybrids are expensive.
- Hybrids will solve environmental
problems.
- Hybrids are only purchased to save on gas.
Among other things, the article
points out that hybrid vehicles are not a new technology; similar technologies date back to the 1900s. And the article
even addresses the oddest myth (at least in Autoblog’s opinion), that hybrid vehicles are only purchased by liberals.