Comments on: Paris Motor Show: Small Hybrids for Global Markets

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:11:32 +0000

apparently chip has been smoking some of good old republican misinformation… yup, that’s how elite republicans drum up support from the classes they do not associate but loves to manipulate. free yourself of that chain. use the internet to do some research and the truth shall set you free!

By: Alexei

Alexei — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:38:39 +0000

Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants contains a lot off depleted uranium with a lot of highly radioactive materials which makes it unusable in conventional nuclear reactors. But fast neutron reactors can burn that waste, thus reducing it, which needs to be stored only for 50-100 years and also enriches the uranium (with non weapons grade plutonium), thus making it usable in conventional nuclear power plants. Another by-product is electricity.
Unfortunately the fast neutron reactor is expensive to run, its profitability is close to 0, no loss no win in money. But this type of recycling can reduce the waste created when uranium is mined, enriched and its waste cleaned up.

By: Oz

Oz — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:42:23 +0000

LO who in there right mind would put nuclear material under there ass in a car can u say FKN MORON

By: E Ozone

E Ozone — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:39:45 +0000

You are all living in a dream world Electric cars and hybrid fuels have been around since the 70′s OIL companies have been paying all car manufacturers not to build them. And the Govt losers take those bribes every day. They have cars that run on batteries that go 0-60 in 3 secs. and can beat a 10 Cyl Dodge Viper in a 1/4 mile. The cost of these hybrids are a joke… it takes 9 yrs of driving one to pay what u save in fuel cost.

By: Rom

Rom — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:22:45 +0000

The first nuclear power plant opened in 1954. How is that new science? That’s back when a gallon of gas cost 22 cents and an average home sold for $1700 bucks. Yet the radioactive waste will still be here 9,900 years past the the death of the people who thought it best to use it.

By: EVman

EVman — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:43:48 +0000

Hi Chip,

While I'm all for nuclear power, you apparently don't read other articles in HybridCars (or many other related sites either) that clearly shows how your statement that hybrids powered by coal fired electric plants "would pollute almost as much as Gasoline cars".

Here is a recent quote from HybridCars itself on Nov. 2009, "Under average US conditions, replacing a gasoline mile with an electric mile cuts global warming pollution in half".

So, please stop posting your political views coupled with false statements.

By: Chip Daigle

Chip Daigle — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:10:00 +0000

Hybrid technology is good but America is so far behind France and Britain in Science and Nuclear Power that it is bringing hybrids here is self defeating. Our PlugIn hybrids would be charged by Dirty Coal fired Power plants and would pollute almost as much as Gasoline cars. All because Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber Obamanistas refuse to embrace Nuclear Science.

Its such a shame. Obama came into office touting Science and now we fall behind the rest of the world because of his biased stupidity.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:15:11 +0000

Oh boy a plug in Grand C-Max in 2014. Now can I make my Focus last till then?