"Alan Browne" <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote in message
news:z96dg.15998$DC3.451506@wagner.videotron.net.. .
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> I don't see hybrid "boost" as a performance item but as reuse of
> deceleration. Period.
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The way Honda is doing it on their production models that is mostly true.
Their concept car, the Dualnote, is a different story:
http://world.honda.com/Tokyo2001/aut...nit/index.html
According to the September 2002 article in Popular Mechanics, Honda
engineers say the electrics effectively double the off-the-line acceleration
to roughly what is expected from a 600 HP conventional power train.

As the electric technology improves we will see performance increasingly
being a reason for hybridization. But the Accord "hybrid?" Hardly worth the
effort, IMHO.

Mike