The Altima Hybrid is a credible competitor to its virtual brother, the Toyota Camry Hybrid, and may in fact be more fun to drive. A combined 198 horsepower and a bunch of hearty, low-end torque (162 lb.-ft at 2,800 rpm from the engine, 199 lb.-ft at 1,500 rpm from the electric motor) makes for spirited take-offs and enough power to get you over hill and dale. Perhaps more to the point, however, is how the clean-air side of the Altima hybrid works: impressively, we drove it past 40 mph on just electric juice. That's not easy, however: We babied the throttle and chanted “AL GORE” sixteen times to make it happen. We ended up with a real-world average of 28.6 miles per gallon.