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Police sting doesn't stop homebrew electric vehicle maker in California {Autoblog Green}
Apr 16th 2009 9:08PM The City of Santa Monica has a bunch of wackos.
But really, they may be concerned with environmental waste like battery acid being dumped somewhere or chemical spills and turning into a brown sight with millions of dollars for cleanup.
Federal funds quitting hydrogen for plug-ins {Autoblog Green}
Apr 7th 2009 5:07PM Plugins are much more likely to be implemented than the pie in the sky hydrogen cars which are still 30 years off. When are they going to make those new nuclear power plants to produce the hydrogen? in 10-15 years, then the infrastructure has to be built, take another 10-15 years.
Besides, the cars require huge tanks to get the range and the hydrogen leaks. If I left my car outside for a week the tank would have evaporated away. Look at the BMW hydrogen car, this is a problem for it right now and they try and keep the hydrogen super cold and dense to fit inside their 7 series.
Fing A. at least batteries are coming online finally. Then we can have electric cars, note, we still need supercapacitors for fast charging if batteries can't manage in the long run a fast charging at an electric charge station every week.... However, a plug in has drawbacks.. How many people actually can charge at their house? only 1/3 of the population.
Oregon mileage tax program shows how to do it right {Autoblog Green}
Apr 7th 2009 4:59PM Fucking bastards! No new taxes! Stop making so many damn roads to nowhere and actually plan cities with more mass transportation. Fing bastards always have to milk the taxpayers for more pet projects to pay off people who got them elected.
Twitter Embargo Leak: 2010 GMC Terrain to manage 30 mpg highway {Autoblog Green}
Mar 24th 2009 7:38PM Well at least GM is finally getting with MPG bandwagon. After all if they want to sell large trucks and make a bunch of money they need to meet those CAFE standards first since those trucks really stink with mpg.
That 30 mpg is achieved with a 4 cylinder. Not bad, who needs to tow really since these vehicles are used more for minivan like shuttling to and from school and a grocery store.
2009 Honda Element debuts, priced from $20,175 {Autoblog}
Oct 29th 2008 9:31PM If I wanted a box I'd get a Ford Flex, and with all the discounts it's only 22K right now. 4 doors and 3 rows. not bad...
The element, haha, what a joke of a car, why isn't this vehicle more like 17-18K, are prices really inflating this much these days? Whatever happened to a 10K Saturn?
Mitsubishi iMiEV gets 20-30 percent more range from new battery {Autoblog Green}
Sep 12th 2008 8:56PM Lithiums age pretty quickly. They get weaker over time. How are these batteries supposed to hold about the same amount of energy after say 3-5 years?
Volt battery decision soon, and 20 mile EV option possible {Autoblog Green}
Jul 13th 2008 3:48PM Can someone explain to me the difference between the Tesla roadster's battery pack costing $20,000 and having a 220 mile range, while GM's battery pack costs $10,000 but has 1/10 the range.
Is GM building a heavy steal car (unlike some aluminum carbon fiber roadster) that is a brick aerodynamically and carries a 800 pound engine and hybrid transmission that wastes the transfer of energy from a battery pack to the road? Can it be that bad?
Is the Volt nothing more than bailout bait? {Autoblog Green}
Jul 3rd 2008 2:21PM the EV1 does not meet current crash regulations. it would have to be reengineered.
Bob Lutz claimed selling the EV1 again with 2 seats will only mean a 1,000 sales or less. He also claimed GM lost a billion dollars doing it.
Fact: EV1 was originally designed with a range extender trailer to be attached when needed.
Fact: even as a 2 seater it would sell more than 1,000.
Fact: reengineering the EV1 to a sedan with upgraded protection is still cheaper than a VOLT 9 billion dollar project!
Fact: GM sold the patents to the EV1 Batteries to a subsidiary of TEXACO!!!!!!
Fact: The Feds paid for a lot of the program to help GM meet California's EPA standards. GM had no intention of going along and used the courts to fight the California mandate for an electric car. The EV1 was all for show.
The future
- Aerodynamic cars
- Lighter Cars from carbon fiber and other materials.
- hybrid, ha, you stick the gas down and climb a mountain the Prius will drain the battery and start returning 17mpg. it is only good for flat land driving.
oil is the foreseeable future. If we can get 100-150 mpg we will all be happier when gas is $20 a gallon.
Damn, I remember a future car show and they showed 2 GM test cars in Europe going over 100mph and getting over 100 mpg on diesel while doing it.
Volkswagen prices 2009 Jetta TDI from $21,990 {Autoblog}
Jun 18th 2008 11:23PM dumping fried grease is not going to work. you need to heavily filter the stuff with some 10 micron filters. Otherwise expect breakdowns with grease.
Pontiac G8 GT: No longer most powerful car under $30K {Autoblog}
Jun 18th 2008 4:23PM with 17/25 for the V6 and 15/24 (20mpg combined) for the V8 I still will consider it when I get a new sedan.
After all with my v6 sedan I'm getting 22 combined, the price of gas now is not going to deter me from getting it that much. Heck in my 4 cylinder accord I'm getting 24 mpg combined....
I only care about the combined numbers. My sedan is supposed to get 30 mpg highway, I have yet to break 24 on pure highway miles. 2008 numbers say 28 highway.... humbug
