AutoblogGreen for 03.28.08
Now we know: at least one person thinks "irrational greenies" are trying to take away his V-8. Are there more? Very likely, but the AutoblogGreen perspective is that there's ways to go fast and drive in style without a V-8 and all that gasoline. Your thoughts?
- Not as bad as it coulda been, but still bad: CARB cuts ZEV mandate by 70 percent
- Car of the decade: Tesla Roadster or Porsche Cayenne?
- Rendered speculation: BMW iSetta spaceball
- Aptera moving from R&D to production
- Blade Runner: Australia's first zero-emissions car
- Electric Power Research Institute joins Escape PHEV test program
- Reagan's Ex-Secretary of State asks Gov. Schwarzenegger to bring back the electric car
- Carter-Era research finally comes good as algae biodiesel gets a push
- U.S. economy speeds up the used car market
- New York 2008: everything on the Progressive Automotive X Prize in one place
- "I Miss My EV1"
- Aprilia announces new Scarabeo 100 and 200
- Detroit News columnist Rex Roy: "Irrational greenies, hands off my V-8"
- Paris Mayor promises electric car sharing. Gets re-elected.
- Portsmouth is first "20mph city" in Britain
- Zipcar comes to Philadelphia with special deal for hybrid rentals
- Chicago gets $51,840 Grant from EPA to reduce garbage truck emissions
- Officially official: Better Place Denmark is born
- Ex-CIA Chief James Woolsey Gives Hydrogen Hell
- Land Rover's CO2 challenge as a part of Tata Motors
- Watch CARB meeting online
- Suzuki invests further in Intelligent Energy
- Inquiring minds at Toyota want to know: how are gas prices affecting you?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kent Beuchert 2:45PM (3/28/2008)
Battery only electrics are oxymorons in the fight to avoid gasoline and emissions. They are , at best niche cars, that are appropriate for almost no one. Plug-in vehicles such as the 40 mile range Volt have the capacity to do what battery-only electrics have never had the capacity to accomplish - meet the private transporation needs of the avergage driver, and eliminate all need for gasoline as a liquid fuel. Unethical companies like the ZAP electric car company, and unreliable "historians" like
the implausible Chris Paine (movie maker) and assorted braindead environmentalists who seem to believe that
carbon free technology is always good, regardless of how crappy it may be (except, oddly, for nuclear power, which is the only significant producer of carbon free power on the planet) are the only ones who are pumping and shilling for battery-only electrics, proven to be flops during the 1910's, 1990's and, if they have their way, in the 2010's.
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wormyguy 6:38PM (3/28/2008)
The people who comment on AutoblogGreen seem not to know that the number of cylinders doesn't significantly affect fuel consumption.
I.E., if you have a 4 liter V8 and a 4.5 liter V6, the V8 likely is more efficient, assuming all other factors are constant.
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Ian Page-Echols 2:48PM (5/31/2008)
I can personally survive with nothing but an electric car for around town. All the naysayers should try it before writing it off. That said, where are the electric cars to try out from the commenter's three time periods?
If there were an EV1 in existence, I bet the cost on eBay would be well over $40,000, as the RAV4 EV is consistently selling for over $50,000, getting up towards $70,000.
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