GM hybrids spotted in the wild!

I saw one on my way home just a few minutes ago. It's black and didn't have the large hybrid sticker on the bottom. It only had the 2 mode hybrid badge on the rear hatch and the front fender. I almost took a picture but then thought it's not worth it.

 

Strange. It seems I'm starting to see more of the GM two-mode monstrosities over the past few months. I spotted my first Ice Capade hybrid on the road yesterday. It was going south on 405.

At first, I thought it was as really Ice Capade until I spotted its hybrid badge.

 

I saw one of the above at parked at Costco today. It might've been the same vehicle as the above since it was white and did have the obnoxiously large HYBRID stickers all over it.

 

I saw my first two-mode Thursday, a black Yukon (?) pulling away from a stop in Redmond. Well, I heard it, then looked up in time to clearly see the Hybrid logo on back, but then the badge was getting too far away to be certain of the Yukon name.

I'm probably missing many other hybrid sighting simply for being not tuned into the right clues.

 

It might've been the black "Ice Capade" that I saw going south on I-405 that I posted about earlier.

 

^^ While I can't discount this with certainty, it didn't seem to fit an Ice Capade. I think I'd spot a craby badge. And the name on the lower left, fading in the distance, seemed to be five or six letters, not eight. But the example pictured on post #35 doesn't seem quite right either.

 

I've never seen any GM hybrids w/the badging like that of post #35. First Drive Cadillac Escalade Hybrid -- Autoblog Green and Abg Garage 2008 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid -- Autoblog Green are the badging I've been seeing. I don't recall if Tahoe hybrids have their rear hybrid badging always in the lower right but the Ice Capade I saw I'm pretty sure had it in the lower left.

The huge lettering on the sides and the rear window are typical of the ones that (still) have it on.

 

On my sighting, the Hybrid logo was on the right, on the tailgate. Nothing on the window.

 

Tahoe hybrid is pretty bad nice person but I'd need to mortgage my house to buy one.

 

Saw a HYBRID Tahoe just last week. It was screaming down my neighborhood, going about 50 in a 35mph area. Pretty scary sight.

I have not driven the hybrid, but the 2011 regular Tahoe we took on a road trip recently was quite underwhelming.

 

After looking closer at the hind end of many GM SUVs, I'm more confident that the hybrid I spotted (post #44) was not an Ice Capade. On the non-hybrids spotted since then, all the Ice Capades I noticed, whether the name tag was on the right or left, had too much shiny bling, a very prominent Caddy badge, and a too-long name tag that just don't match my memory of the suspect vehicle.

The plainer hiney of some Yukons fit the bill perfectly. But I cannot rule out Tahoes, whose name tag is the same length.

 

Oddly enough, I spotted TWO Saturn Vue hybrids today (real winners). One was near the Crossroads area in Bellevue, WA and one was in the mall's parking lot. The first was red (and very clean) and the other was silver.

I don't think I've ever seen any in those colors before, so I don't think they're the same as any others I've spotted before.

 

Saw a metallic beige Tahoe hybrid on I-5 near Federal Way today.

 

Saw a white Tahoe Hybrid in San Jose today. They're rare everywhere...

 

Saw a black Yukon hybrid in Los Gatos today.

There are way too many monstrosities there. I saw two, possibly three Hummer H2s there today. The tiny woman w/2 small kids I'm sure really needed her H2. It was too big for the parking spaces and had to be parked over the lines.

 

Saw a two-mode hybrid Tahoe in Shreveport last weekend. Double rare.

 

Was passed by a huge GM something or other that had "H - Y - B - R - I - D" stenciled across the front and back doors, and "Hybrid" prominently displayed on the (huge) rear end.

Okay, sure.

 

I have only seen two since they came out. I have seen more Rav-4 EV's (without counting car shows or going to any place where they would be unusually prevelent) in the wild. The only hybrid or electric I have seen less of is the Tesla Roadster.

I have seen many Malibu hybrids.

 

I spotted a Chevy Malibu Hybrid yesterday. Either this is my first sighting in CA or the sightings are very rare.

It was a government vehicle as it had a CA exempt plate.

 

I saw my second Malibu Hybrid, entering I-90 at Coeur d'Alene, on Friday. Didn't have time to check the plate. My previous sighting was also on I-90, but only 30 miles from here, not 300.

In the past few months, I have noticed a couple Vue Hybrids. Didn't record their locations, but they were not in the center of the local hybrid/EV universe on the east side of Lake Washington.