A hybrid car battery generally last about 150000 miles,and changing the battery costs 4-10 thousands dollars,thus it isn’t cost efficient.
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Mabel Teng
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Annabelle Chen
Hybrids cost more: although you are saving more on gasoline but you are spending extra money on buying the hybrid vehicle.
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Emily Chang
Hybrid cars are inconvenient because some places do not offer an “electric station”. Perhaps solar powered vehicles would be a better option
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Karlyn Evans
The majority of our group does not own hybrids because of their cost. Also, they are not as popular in their country of origin.
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Yating Zhang
Actually, I don’t understand this issue clearly, but I think it depends on the price and accessibility. What’s the most important thing is the price.
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rhiannonwademan
Check out the second page of this article around Feb 3, 2010. http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1962218-2,00.html
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Clement Hue Yat Kong
My parents live in Hong Kong and prefers not to drive. Hybrid could reduce fuel costs, but I would choose based on functions and brand-name.
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Meggie Liu
Getting a hybrid could possibly reduce future gas consumption; however, my family would rather get a car with a popular brand name.
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hanxuanwang
my family doesn’t buy choose hybrid cars because it is hard to get fuel in my city, there are few stations to get the fuel for hybrid cars
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mariapous
It depends on the needs of the consumers , the availability, and its popularity in some countries.
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Matt Gwin
Why People Don’t Have Hybrids: Culture (Social Status), Infrastructure, Additional Cost, Lack of Availability…sometimes practicality
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joyekwon
Our key reason for not owning a hybrid is that, families feel more associated with automobiles that they are already familiar with.
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Jake Black
Our family doesn’t own a hybrid because there isn’t a variety of hybrids that are appealing at an affordable price.
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Aylin Senem Piskin
Hybrids are quite expensive. Also where I live, many people don’t even know about hybrid cars.
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Emilie Gibeau
Our families are not looking to buy a new car and until that need arises we will not be considering alternate car options.
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Megan Chan
My family is not in need of a new car, at the moment, therefore we have not purchased a hybrid.
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Michael Worthington
I have a Hybrid. My dad was given the car by his company
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Matt Gwin
Why People Don’t Have Hybrids: Culture (Social Status), Infrastructure, Additional Cost, Lack of Availability…sometimes practicality
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nando
I don’t plan to have one in short term just to save money. Still waiting for the tech to be well-developed.
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Andrew Grange
one of the draws towards a hybrid vehicle is fuel saving cost down the road…no guarantee that the car will be kept long enough to benefit
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Xinyue (angela) Li
Families don’t use hybrid cars because we can get a car with better function and with a better brand using the same amount of money.
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joyekwon
Our key reason for not owning a hybrid is that, families feel more associated with automobiles that they are already familiar with.
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ziluezheng
my family choose conventional cars over hybrid because hybrid is more pricey and it has a poor reputation of being “weaker”.
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Alexander Wou
Our family does not have a hybrid because they believe the technology is not as reliable(still developing).
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michellesieklucki
My family hasn’t bought a car recently enough, I have urged them to buy this one though. http://www.teslamotors.com/en_CA
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Cole Christiansen
Our families don’t own Hybrids because of desire for performance. Cost doesn’t entirely matter,but it does have an effect. Buy a Tesla later
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Darya Jalali
No, it is too expensive. Also living in Vancouver, everything is close to us so gas consumption is less.
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alanzhu
Too expensive and the money you save from gas goes towards the initial cost of buying the hybrid vehicle itself.
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alanzhu
Harman Sahota, Yu Lin Huang and Alan ZHu
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Maddie Ladner
I have a hybrid car because there is a lot of pollution in Houston & it also allows me to fill up on gasoline less often.
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Karen Ke Wang
No need to get another car. They don’t want to replace working non hybrid cars with a new more expensive hybrid one
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