Comments on: Cutting Weight: How Much Gas Does it Save?

By: tapra2

tapra2 — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:25:51 +0000

Substituting aluminum for major parts of the car’s “body in white,” or base structure, takes savings to 470 pounds,Consulting Blog

By: austin

austin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:30:07 +0000

i love this website

By: Betsy Ross

Betsy Ross — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:05:13 +0000

Hey Sasquatch,

Dumping money into solar really works right? HA now we have Solyndra to show us how that works.

By: Betsy Ross

Betsy Ross — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:41:23 +0000

It's nice of you Socialists to tell me what I need. I feel like I need my SUV to haul my many yards of cloth and sewing supplies but I suppose you are the smart ones.

Since we are on the subject no-one needs to go 100 miles an hour, or even 90 or 80 so lets "fix" all cars to not go over 70. Hey.. no-one needs to take off fast, it wastes fuel and that affects everyone.. 0 to 60 in ten minutes is more fuel efficient. For that matter have you even gotten this trip approved by the Government? I mean a Sunday afternoon drive is certainly not necessary and wasteful.

Lets put the Government in charge of our thermostat in out homes too.

By: jenifer

jenifer — Mon, 30 May 2011 16:03:08 +0000

I have 4 children. I drive a minivan- but minivan/suv is a required vehicle when you are hauling a minimum of 6 people around.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:51:58 +0000

Lexus = Toyota….except maybe a little better. You should expect no excitement in one of those.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:48:37 +0000

Really I traded in my Lexus LS 400 for Honda fit, and I have more headroom in my Honda fit then I did in my Lexus, And I’m 6 foot 4. secondly I can easily put in 8 foot two by fours in the Honda fit, which I never could in my Lexus. thirdly, I average 36 miles a gallon. which, I didn’t get my Lexus. and lastly, I have more fun driving my Honda fit than I had ever gotten in my Lexus. If I would’ve known I had this much fun in the Honda. I would’ve bought one year sooner.

By: sasquatch

sasquatch — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:52:17 +0000

why can’t the car co’s just put the $ they are investing in hybrid research straight into lighter materials… no research needed (which the gov’t would then penalize with tax!) and give that $ straight to the customer. they could even surcharge to offset the price some. Same principal applies to the wars we’re fighting to get more oil, dump that $ into renewables- we’ll cut the USA’s consumption in half! Logic… must be over rated. Oh well.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:24:27 +0000

Hi Dave99, I work on behalf of the Aluminum Association and we commissioned the two studies mentioned in the article above. The title of the Ricardo study is:

“Impact of Vehicle Weight Reduction on Fuel Economy for Various Vehicle Architectures”

and the title of the IBIS powertrain study is:

“Aluminum Vehicle Structure: Manufacturing and Lifecycle Cost Analysis; Hybrid Drive and Diesel Fuel Vehicles”.

Here’s the URL for the IBIS powertrain study:

< http://www.autoaluminum.org/downloads/IBIS-Powertrain-Study.pdf >

If you need additional information on the Ricardo study please feel free to follow up with me. Thanks for your interest.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:55:33 +0000

yea, but it wasn’t all in the air at the same time. ancient ice cores have shown cyclical motions in the CO2 concentration in or atmosphere, but the numbers never exceeded 300 parts per million. Now we have an atmospheric concentration at 380 parts per million, the greatest concentration in millions of years of history. I am not particularly scared of climate change. Most climate models now show north America actually benefiting with greater rainfall and what not. I am more worried about regions like Africa where an already dry climate is getting dryer everyday. The conflicts that will come out of that place I almost guarantee will drag us into that crap hole. You know how involved we are in the middle east???? We get 20% of our oil from that region. Do you know how much we get from Africa (and mostly concentrated in the western and some inland regions) 24%!!! The DoD (department of defense) has just designated a regional command of Africa. (AFRICOM) This place is a powder keg and we are about to jump headlong into it. Climate change will just exacerbate an already tense region. You know the whole Darfur thing. That conflict has been exacerbated by a conflict over limited drinking from the only lake in the region. Formerly (before it literally dried up into nothingness permanently) it was one of the largest lakes in the world on which millions of people relied on. This is only the beginning. Go read the report on climate change by the DoD. There is a scary future that they paint for you there.