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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
Not quite. You can partially charge a full-electric car usign regenerative braking, but when those batteries get low/empty how do you keep going up a hill so you can recharge coming down the other side? Unless/until battery technology gets to the point that you can fully recharge your car's system in the time it takes to, say, finish your grocery shopping, it'll lose out to mproved hybrid technology. 125 mile cruising range FTL.
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Boy that's a stretch.
Let's do this: one hybrid car w/ next generation battery technology vs. one pure electric w/ next generation battery technology.
Assume both cars are exactly the same in weight, performance, etc. One just has a small gas motor and fuel tank, the other has the weight of the motor/fuel in extra batteries.
Because the pure electric is charged by a power plant that's way more efficient than the hybrid's motor, when fully charged, it already has made more efficient use of the original chemical energy. Coupled with the larger overall battery capacity, now the pure electric drives over your stratigically placed hill and on for another 40 miles while the hybrid runs out of gas climbing the hill.