Jim - 5/14/2024 10:32

As I pointed out above, electric motors have tremendous torque and will be great climbing out of your valley. And you will get some of that energy back when you return home and the electric motor acts as a generator when going downhill as well as greatly reducing the wear on your brakes.

We had no trouble going up the steep road to Hosmer park as described above.

IMHO, the  only reason to buy a hybrid is if you take long drives in an area with little or no charging infrastructure. In which case I would just buy straight gas car.

For us, we like many couples, have 2 cars. One is the Bolt which gets most of our daily miles (out and back under about 220 miles). The other is a gas SUV which we use to pull a trailer or for trips up north where there is as yet little charging infrastructure but it’s being built.