GSA buys vehicles all the time. Anything that can be done to decrease the amount of gas used to keep Feds mobile will be a savings to the government. And hopefully the policy will continue into the future so that the impact will multiply.

I’d like to see more Governors follow Obama’s lead. Several years ago Gov. John Lynch of NH ordered all state departments to decrease overall energy usage by 10%, and all replacement cars to get at least 33 mpg. Small changes resulting in significant savings for state taxpayers.

Just because you buy them NObama, doesn’t mean we all are going to empty our empty pockets and follow your lead. What’s the point in this purchase anyway????

I bet the other 85% of fleet purchases were full size “Flex-Fuel” SUVs which means they get even worse mileage, if they ever bother to use E-85 instead of gasoline (which is now E-10 or E-20), which would be rare indeed.

Peterbuilt has a wicked cool new diesel hybrid utility truck out.

Tired old, wrong fallacies about lithium from Johnny.

1. Other energy carriers are developing, so if even all of worst fears and misunderstandings abou lithium came true, it’s a simple matter of using whatever energy carrier is best/cheapest at any time and switching energy carriers when what’s best/cheapest changes. It’s electric drive that matters, with its vastly superior efficiency and performance.

2. Lithium is recyclable. Oil is not. Lithium is an energy carrier and does not get used up. The particular carrier it’s used in becomes obsolete eventually and can be plug and play replaced with a higher perfroming or cheaper one using the same lithium if desired. Once used in a gasoline engine as an energy source, oil is gone forever.

3. No one part of the world has a majority of lithium, although the United States has susbstantial amouts. Lithium in general is abundant on the planet (hundreds of billions of tons), not especially concentrated in any country, and is currently used in make up and other common products. There is currently an oversupply of lithium power cells.

4. Despite the shortcomings that every country has, Bolivia is a democratic country in Latin America. Bolivia does not hate us more than middle east terrorists, but if they don’t want to sell lithium to global commodity markets, that’s fine as there’s no shortage of other places for energy cell makers to get it, including the US.

5. Collecting partially used makeup kits from landfills in the US could provide all the lithium that electric vehicles will need for decades, but there are even cheaper sources for now.

My made in the US by a US company already sold to regular Joe SixPacks street legal highway capable electric vehicle that I use as my daily driver commuter uses 2 kWh per 100 miles (less than $0.25 in most states) with regular style (expect for the 0-30 mph in less than 2 seconds part) driving. Beat that. For those who have been hiding under a rock, a gallon of gasoline has about 36 kWh (DOE Kids Page) of energy, so do the math.

Oh, it’s 100% wind powered, so don’t try the long tailpipe fallacy on me.

Yawn, wake me when everyone gets a clue about electric drive. I’m sorry to sound dismissive, but its getting increasingly painful to see the utter lack of fundamental general education about electric drive efficiency and capability when it’s been used for transportation for decades.