Tahoe Hybrid Review!
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/reviews/healey/2007-07-26-tahoe-hybrid_N.htm
General Motors plans to start selling gasoline-electric hybrid versions of its full-size Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon SUVs this fall, hoping their improved fuel economy will attract mileage-minded buyers back to the potentially profitable big SUV market.
The hybrids will come only well-equipped. But GM (GM) says they won't be the most expensive in the $35,000-to-$55,000 Tahoe/Yukon line.
A few hours in a preproduction Tahoe hybrid around Northern Virginia, in traffic and on highways, was satisfying.
Tahoe was smooth as you please in stop-go because the electric motor, which handles low-speed driving, provides all its power the instant it begins to turn. Gasoline engines have to rev a bit. GM says the electric-only mode could take you to 32 mph under ideal conditions. But the test showed that accelerating in traffic means electric-only lasts only up to about 10 mph.
The hybrid tows less, 6,000 to 6,200 pounds vs. 7,500 to 8,200 on gasoline models. No tow test was scheduled, but a stop at the Hobby Hangar in Chantilly, Va., a store that sells remote-control cars, planes and boats, provided an opportunity. The folks there, beyond all reason and good sense, offered the store's trailer. It was empty and probably weighed 1,000 pounds, according to the consensus, but it at least hinted how the hybrid would tug.
Very well, it turns out, with the trailer behind and five guys aboard the Tahoe.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/reviews/healey/2007-07-26-tahoe-hybrid_N.htm
General Motors plans to start selling gasoline-electric hybrid versions of its full-size Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon SUVs this fall, hoping their improved fuel economy will attract mileage-minded buyers back to the potentially profitable big SUV market.
The hybrids will come only well-equipped. But GM (GM) says they won't be the most expensive in the $35,000-to-$55,000 Tahoe/Yukon line.
A few hours in a preproduction Tahoe hybrid around Northern Virginia, in traffic and on highways, was satisfying.
Tahoe was smooth as you please in stop-go because the electric motor, which handles low-speed driving, provides all its power the instant it begins to turn. Gasoline engines have to rev a bit. GM says the electric-only mode could take you to 32 mph under ideal conditions. But the test showed that accelerating in traffic means electric-only lasts only up to about 10 mph.
The hybrid tows less, 6,000 to 6,200 pounds vs. 7,500 to 8,200 on gasoline models. No tow test was scheduled, but a stop at the Hobby Hangar in Chantilly, Va., a store that sells remote-control cars, planes and boats, provided an opportunity. The folks there, beyond all reason and good sense, offered the store's trailer. It was empty and probably weighed 1,000 pounds, according to the consensus, but it at least hinted how the hybrid would tug.
Very well, it turns out, with the trailer behind and five guys aboard the Tahoe.
