Recent Comments:
So whats the downside to the Tesla Roadster? The range! {Autoblog Green}
Jan 30th 2008 7:15AM Perhaps I'm missing something here, but how can "driving with lots of regenerative braking" give you more miles per charge than driving sedately? On a flat road you'll always get less back in regeneration than you output in the first place.
Detroit 2008: Jeep Renegade concept live reveal {Autoblog Green}
Jan 17th 2008 1:37AM An "environmentally friendly off-roader"? You must be joking.
This thing doesn't have even the slightest pretense of real-world utility, which is the excuse generally used to justify SUVs. ("I really need an SUV because one day I might go logging, or need to tow a Boeing.") On the contrary, this machine is just a big beach-buggy, and it has only one purpose, to tear up the countryside for the driver's fun. So please, what's environmentally friendly about that?
Toyota to halve cost and size of hybrid synergy drive, skip diesels {Autoblog Green}
Oct 26th 2007 1:04PM Not thinking of diesel hybrids? Hm. Either they know something that we don't or - No, they're simply deluded.
Audi launches TDI initiative in the US {Autoblog Green}
Oct 18th 2007 2:16PM Very clever. Now could consumers please get weaned off 3-liter engines and start thinking in terms of 2 liters, or 1.5 liters?
In a diesel, 240 bhp is more grunt than most people need. My first diesel (also an Audi, and an auto) had just 95 bhp, and could easily tow a 20-foot sailing cruiser behind it up and down the steep hills of the English Lake District. It averaged 42 miles per (US) gallon. I now drive a 1.5 liter diesel, don't pull a boat any more, and am getting much better mileage still.
People - bhp per liter is not the point. Please stop this absurd quest for more power.
