Thread: Hybrid Hilux announced

Originally Posted by Bush Basher

I don’t really get Hybrids, you still have to put petrol in it, you still have to service the engine and you have an expensive battery that will slowly be degrading.
Modern petrol and diesel vehicles are pretty fuel efficient these days.

So I have no dog in this fight either way, just my $0.02c... my wife's work car is a hybrid, I have a V6 petrol dual cab ute. When we drove hers 2400km across the country, we were using 5.2 litres / 100km travelled. When I did the same trip a few months later in my ute (admittedly towing a trailer), I got 20 litres / 100km.
so if my maths and memory serve, we spent $250 in fuel for her hybrid round trip vs $960 for mine. So in the short term, those savings add up.

that said, my ute is 20 years old... I doubt her hybrid will still be running in 20 years.