Comments on: Availability of Plug-in Hybrids

By: m. welker

m. welker — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:55:08 +0000

update this crap!! w/this kind of technology,these types of websites have to be updated every 6 months…there’s all kinds of outdated info out there…btw, what do people w/ no garages do if they want a plug-in hybrid?

By: Jef

Jef — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:14:04 +0000

The reason for non-internal combustion engines is obvious - to conserve our nonrenewable energy sources and make the most of our renewable ones. Most internal combustion engines only use 20% of the energy in the nonrenewable source. Pretty poor idea I'd say.

I personnaly am not scientifically convinced that global warming is definitely caused by man's activities. The science of the global warming alarmists is based on extrapolated data (something you just shouldn't do if you are trying to make an argument that cannot be unravelled). I am convinced however, that we are using up our fossil fuels at an alarming rate, and that the physical and financial security of our country is suffering for it.

What we need to do is start driving smaller plug in hybrid and preferably full electric cars that use regenerative braking to minimize energy used in transportation. Insulating our homes and using programmable thermostats will help as well.

If you want a fight, call people names. If you want to succeed, make logical arguments!

By: toes

toes — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:54:12 +0000

Halo9x: Hahaha, Hilarious … you were joking right? If not: Enough with the fairy tales already. Good fiction does not qualify as science. Drill here, continue to increase the oil industries profits … perfect alternate technologies and make it competitive for them. End the dependence on and addiction to oil.

By: Halo9x

Halo9x — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:02:48 +0000

Have a little faith, God made the Earth much better than you give Him credit for. As for Al Gore, he is an idiot! Drill here, drill more, pay less!

By: "Catch 22," Oh, here we go again

"Catch 22," Oh, here we go again — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:51:53 +0000

“Clearly anyone who adds $25K to a $25K car that will end up with a 25-mile range has too much time and money. This is not a realistic proof vehicle. Batteries are one of the most environmentally-unfriendly creations on our planet. See article below.

http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/print_item.asp?NewsID=188“

Ding Ding, someone has quoted that crap article again…

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:35:40 +0000

notanenginer,
I like your idea of putting solar collection panel over parking spots in parking lots. It does not, however, require much engineering, certainly not from hot-shot university engineering researchers. It simply requires people who own parking lots to want to do it and for (parking lot and car) owners to be willing to pay to put them up.

By: GOK

GOK — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:23:24 +0000

“…have not been crash-tested in their modified form.” concerns me a little bit for an ever day car loaded with extra batteries it wasn’t designed for. Personal injury aside if one of these conversion is done badly and then has a bad accident. The PR could be detrimental to the PHEV movement. Because the News never leads with “Idiot modified car incorrectly lead to death…” they would lead with “PHEV fries childern in back seat…”.

Just a thought.

By: Moondog

Moondog — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:54:36 +0000

O.k. folks, I think we all realize we need plug-in hybrids if we care to rid ouselves of our middle eastern nut-job problems. So why is it that it’s taking automakers so long to produce one? After 10 years of limited imports from OPEC, the whole region would be almost insignificant to the U.S. Fact is, we import 54% of our energy from outside our borders, and by 2010 that number will probably exceed 70%. As far as cost goes, it’s a bunch of Hoey – we need a good old fashioned “Gubment Subsidy” to defray the cost of the batteries, just like we give to our farmer friends. I’ve never been much of a political guy, but why are our elected officials not doing more to solve our crisis? C’mon guys (and gals), let’s “git-er-done”. I personnaly think we need to focus our efforts on developing more hydropower and solar power, cleaning up our coal fired power plant processes (for the short term), and expanding our renewable liquid fuel sources, like cellulosic ethanol.

By: notanengineer

notanengineer — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:29:24 +0000

could a university engineering dept experiment with creating a parking lot equipt with solar collection panels and outlets to plug in Hybrids while parked on campus? In return for free power the users could provide data for research!

By: Aero

Aero — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:27:45 +0000

it does not cost no10-25k for batteries they are there to gouge you and make you pay more so they can make more dirty money.