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Senator puts his money where his mouth is, plugs in his Prius {Autoblog Green}
Sep 23rd 2008 7:52PM @meme
Well, another difference is that you can buy a Prius and convert it with a Hymotion kit, whereas the Volt might be produced in 2011, so your comparison is really hypothetical.
It certainly will be interesting as the market changes. Imagine, if you will, a 2013 Consumers Union comparison of a BYD, Toyota, Nissan and GM plug-in, assuming for the moment that all of those names still abound.
@Richard
You're asking if a GM bailout makes sense when, as Dennis Kuchinik, succinctly described the proposed, near trillion dollar Wall Street bailout: "Their profit are their profits and their losses are our losses."
General Motors may get a boost from Honeywell {Autoblog Green}
Sep 22nd 2008 9:54AM "It seems likely that GM and others will add additional turbocharged gas engine applications over the coming years as an interim step until electrically-driven vehicles become more affordable."
Affordable as defined by manufacturing rather than environmental cost, eh, Sam?
VIDEO: General Motors centennial celebration to be broadcast on GMNext {Autoblog Green}
Sep 15th 2008 11:07AM ABG keeping its fingers on the pulse of innovation, eh?
Yes, now for the aged baby-boomer generation: Televized Funerals.
I wonder if they will have a piper as in WKTEC?
Craigslist find of the day: Homebuilt electric bike {Autoblog Green}
Jul 20th 2008 8:50AM Actually, there are a number of other questions that I would like to ask the maker, e.g., are those solar batteries? does it have regen? what sort of suspension systems did you employ? et cetera
It looks like the skeleton for an Aptera and makes you wonder about the difference in cost. It shows that the maker did his homework in designing the trike, e.g., choice of tadpole design (2 steering wheels in front, 1 wheel in rear).
Ideally, in addition to an aerodynamic fairing, you probably would want in-wheel drive motors in the front steering wheels. The problem is un-sprung weight.
What the prototype also suggest is that a modek need not be a body on top of a lead sled. The lead sled could be in a locomotive - caboose configuration, too. The driver compartment detaches and reattaches to a different lead sled.
Forget MPG - let's move to GPM {Autoblog Green}
Jun 21st 2008 8:40AM While cost per mile is a better metric, it unfortunately omits a key consideration, i.e., cost to life on the planet as we know it. Simply measuring cost to your wallet or pocketbook encourages drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve, off-shore, in the melting Arctic, etc., to keep those SUVs (albeit now slightly more efficient) running to the mall.
We should properly look at cost in terms of pocketbook, yes, and cost in terms of energy used (reward efficiency) and cost in terms of carbon footprint, all should be quickly accessible.
Just looking at gallons per mile also stays with in the ICE paradigm, i.e., we continue to think only in terms of gallons of gas or diesel. On the other hand, the Duke professors are correct in their observation that GPM provides a missing perspective. Funny that, eh?
Project Better Place "green smoke and mirrors"? {Autoblog Green}
Jun 9th 2008 11:04AM Well, BBH (BlackBird Highway), I agree and disagree w' ya.
If you read Romm http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/climateprogress/lCrX/~3/307604602/ you come away that there is some hope. OTOH, 99 of 100 senators voted against a Renewable Portfolio Standard, when it most recently came to a vote.
So, I would agree with you that it is fallacy to look to the politicians. They will follow along when the way the wind blows, and more importantly the way the campaign contribution flow. I would disagree with your assertion that the majority of people do not want such change.
Project Better Place "green smoke and mirrors"? {Autoblog Green}
Jun 9th 2008 8:42AM Domenick, I agree with Simon and you that using electric cars, even when the mix includes coal fired electric power generation, most often (but not always) will be cleaner.
I was taking issue with your statement that seemed to link coal-fired electric power generation with cleaning up the mess.
I was coming from somewhere other than Business As Usual and Above All Else and accepting stopgap measures that will suffice for now. Uh-uh. It's too late, honey; it even may be too late if we employ heroic efforts, e.g., no coal. It depends upon who you read.
And, if you disbelieve that the Syngas spin is ramping up, you'd be better off writing more fairy tales to lull the kids to sleep, all snugly in their Titanic bunks.
Project Better Place "green smoke and mirrors"? {Autoblog Green}
Jun 8th 2008 11:28AM I appreciate the opportunity to comment. It supports the idea of freedom of speech and freedom of the Press in the United States. Thus, I want to be respectful of this opportunity while saying that you are full of cow manure with your Syngas spin, Yoney.
When you write, "While the coal used now may be nasty and ought to be phased out as quickly as possible, it is still cleaner than a multitude of new tailpipes," you are not only wrong, but dangerously wrong in an assertion that continues to threaten life on the planet as we know it.
When you write, "if planned properly, the existing generation capacity may well be sufficient to power the first few years of electric-car influx, thereby reducing overall pollution and CO2 production and giving further impetus to cleaner future energy generation" you fallaciously link clean energy with coal and omit recognition that Israel is a leader in solar, which, sadly the United States was years ago.
EVC re-launches website, accepting deposits on bikes {Autoblog Green}
May 21st 2008 1:32PM @Nick -- The problem is the number of variables with responding to a question about range.
Chrysler must be happy to keep holding onto GEM {Autoblog Green}
May 7th 2008 1:07PM Hey, buddy, my Trojans just died. You got six deep cycle batteries you can spare me?
