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Originally Posted by kaisen
You'll start seeing "hybrids" that go after the low-hanging fruit of stop/start, regenerative braking, and electric motor assist where they can use smaller primary gas motor, and benefit from the instant torque of electric motors to get moving from a standstill. This "mild-hybrid" formula uses a relatively small battery pack so it skips the expense and isn't constrained so much by current battery capacity limitations. It really does make a big difference in overall fuel economy.
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There are a couple of different flavors and they all have strengths and weaknesses. As was said above, for dense urban environments that have infrastructure, electric makes sense. For other places, less so. The driving experience with my X1 is different than the i3, which is different from other hybrids (technically the i3 Rex is a hybrid).