Forbes story on least efficient hybrids

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 24 2007, 09:30 AM) [snapback]516839[/snapback]</div>

Ultra Charged automatic transmission or something like that.

2-mode hybrid is basically a souped up four speed automatic transmission with a battery pack to assist.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 24 2007, 06:30 AM) [snapback]516839[/snapback]</div>

It is all in how something is marketed.... To extend your example if it were marketed as a Torque boosting electrical system along with some test results that showed a .5 second gain in 0-60 (which wouldn't necessarily have to come directly from the hybrid power system; it could come from lighter weight), the muscle car crowd would be all over the Tahoe (there would be a wait list similar to what the Prius experienced in the early years, and dealers would be charging premiums for each hybrid Tahoe they sold).

It is all in the marketing.