Truly Green Cars - Part 1: Utter Failure - Chevy Tahoe Hybrid

by Harvey Xiao

I’ll be first to admit that I don’t like hybrids. But they do serve a purpose. I get their appeal. 50mpg, tree-loving, world saving, self-less, responsible, so done with dating jerks and sluts image… I get it.

However. 

The Chevy Tahoe hybrid has no purpose. The first time I saw a picture of this hideous, comical looking beast, the coffee in my mouth flowed right out of my mouth and onto my roommate’s copy of CarandDriver - no joke.

Seriously, what a slap in the face to the rest of the green-going automotive world!? Just think about it - all these Japanese engineers working day & night to squeeze extra inches / gallon out of the Prius (Hai!)… Germans drinking beer day & night to have enough urine for their new diesels…

And here come the GM engineers from the good old US of A…. duck-taping plastic spoilers over plastic bumpers and sticking 2 AA batteries in the back of a school-bus sized SUV …. Yeah! Hybrid! WOOOOT. I’m gonna go get me a cheeseburger.

I’m embarrassed that this is (was?) our idea of green. Yes, what a compromise. Instead of questioning whether we need such a vehicle to drive our fat asses to work, let’s just put a battery in it and get 12 miles per gallon instead of 11. 

I’m just glad Ford didn’t take the same approach…

photo courtesy of wikipedia