Luxury auto boom leaves Cadillac behind (Boo hoo)

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62. I probably should have googled "luxury hybrids"...

...before just running with the question that popped into my mind.

Many of those aren't too impressive when compared to, say, a Prius. Then again a few are better than I'd imagined, and they're all a whole lot better than that atrocious Audi R8 mentioned at the beginning of the Forbes article.

I see that Cadillac has a plug-in hybrid too, which is essentially a Chevy Volt underneath, but with luxury touches and a huge boost in price.

I'd considered a Volt, and would have liked its greater electric-only range, but I didn't like the styling, I felt the car's body obstructed my visibility of the surrounding environment too much, and it was missing some features I wanted.

Having a short commute, the Fusion Energi's 20-something range has proven sufficient that I rarely need to use gas anyway, especially since I finally sprung for a 240-volt charger which can, even in a short half-hour charging session between getting home from work and going out somewhere, squeeze in the extra few miles of electric range above what the 120-volt charger can do that makes the difference between making it all the way back home again before the gas engine kicks in.