Our sub-editor wanted a car capable of taking all of the effort and much of the expense out of his (very) long commute. So, is his Honda HR-V hybrid delivering?
has me thinking about the Electric Mountain – no, not a forbidding, mystical edifice in a Tolkien fantasy landscape, but a hydro-electric power station in Snowdonia. And that's all because of the way the car and mountain both deliver their power.
The Electric mountain is home to Dinorwig Power Station, which lies deep below the summit of Elidir. Most of the time, it lies there silently, in a state of readiness. Meanwhile, 71 metres above, the surface of the lake Llyn Peris is placid, idly reflecting the clouds as they scud across the valley.
When cruising at 69mph, the HR-V's in-built power station is calm, too. It combines a 1.5-litre petrol engine with a battery and a pair of electric motors, and at that speed, on a straight, level section of road, a little"EV" symbol on the dashboard tells me that we're running on battery power alone.
However, it doesn't take much movement from my right foot before the HR-V unleashes the full Dinorwig. When the latter's power is called upon, thousands of litres of water from Llyn Peris are released in a torrent, crashing down through the turbines and generating 1800MW of power in as little as 16 sec.
Still, if this is the price I have to pay for economy, so be it. Right now, my calculations suggest a pretty impressive 50.6mpg to be the norm for my routine 240-mile round trip to work and back, and with petrol prices soaring, every mile per penny helps. In fact, I'm beginning to enjoy the frequent periods when the M25's flow clots and slows to walking pace, because that's when the EV light is most likely to glow, helping my petrol to take me that little bit farther.
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