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10/8    Dear physics/EE experts. If I put electricity in motors, they
        turn. But if I turn motors, will they generate electricity?
        How efficient could they do that? The other question is,
        the Toyota Prius has a regenerative brake. How much more
        components did they add to make that happen (how many more
        motors, circuitry, coils, etc), and how efficient is the
        regenerative brake? In another word, suppose you put in
        100X 'energy' into the car to make it go ye fast, then you
        utilize the regenerative brake, what percentage of 100X do
        you get back?
        \_ http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/08/pf/autos/mileage/index.htm?cnn=yes
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Hybrid Insight most efficient vehicle Gas-electric Honda beats Toyota hybrid Prius for best mileage; October 8, 2004: 12:25 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Honda's gas-electric hybrid Insight edged out the Toyota hybrid Prius for the most fuel-efficient vehicle, according to th e government mileage readings, while the Dodge Ram pickup was measured a s the worst gas guzzler. The mileage readings from the Environmental Protection Agency says that t he manual transmission version of the hybrid Insight could get 61 miles per gallon in city driving and 66 mpg on the highway, compared to 60 mpg in the city and 51 mpg on the highway for the Prius, which is unusual f or getting better city mileage due to its greater reliance on its electr ic motor during stop-and-go driving. Different versions of hybrid vehicles from Honda and Toyota hold the top seven spots on the list of most efficient vehicles. The manual transmission diesel version of the Volkswagen Jetta Wagon is just behind at No. It didn't use much more fuel than the hybrid version on the highway, ge tting 36 mpg in the city and 44 mpg on the highway in its manual transmi ssion version. The new hybrid version of the Ford Escape, the first sport/utility vehicl e to use a hybrid engine, is No. At the other end of the ratings, the two-wheel-drive version of the Dodge Ram Pickup got only 9 mpg in the city and 12 mpg on the highway. That e dged out the high-end sports car Lamborghini L-147/148 Murcielago, which got 9 mpg in the city and 13 mpg on the highway. CORRECTION graphic The original version of this article got the name of the Honda vehicle at top of the fuel efficiency list wrong. Vehicles more than 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight, such as the Hummer H2, are exempt from federal fuel economy requirements. The other vehicles among the top gas guzzlers are other high-end vehicles from Lamborghini, Ferrari and Bentley, as well as the manual transmissi on version of the Dodge Ram pickup, which came in at No.