Thread: Hybrid vs petrol - surprising outcome

A bit late to this thread, but some of the findings here are not surprising.

Open road driving is not a hybrid's specialty - the whole point in all the engineering complexity behind a hybrid drivetrain is stop/go urban driving where it recovers a lot of otherwise wasted energy to the battery. You don't ordinarily get that on the open road, so yeah, they are often no better than the petrol equivalent in that environment (and sometimes worse).