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VIDEO: Ford F-150 hybrid pick up truck gets 41 mpg {Autoblog Green}
Jul 24th 2008 5:28PM "How is 41mpg a made up number" says Axiom.
You have to get rid of the bogus conditionals, because otherwise you can make up any condition and quote any number. It is utterly meaningless.
Hey if I fill up my tank on top of big hill and coast home, my MPG is infinite.
If I convince friends to push much truck half the time, my MPG doubles.
If I have a 3 mile electric range, but stop at houses along the way to work and beg them for a recharge every mile my MPG is infinite... And so on...
MPG is based on burning fuel, by the gallon. When this truck is burning gas it gets 21mpg (supposedly) Not 41. If I go on a road trip I get 21mpg not 41mpg.
VIDEO: Ford F-150 hybrid pick up truck gets 41 mpg {Autoblog Green}
Jul 23rd 2008 5:45PM No it gets 21mpg and has a 15 mile electric only range.
41 MPG is another made up BS number like the Apteras 300 MPG number.
These numbers are bogus/arbitrary/misleading.
All you need to know is the actual mpg and the electric only range.
Coast to Coast AM tries out HHO (Water4gas) system {Autoblog Green}
Jul 18th 2008 6:28PM "He has bad results because these hydrogen kits are sold incomplete in amenuities. "
Or because this is obviously complete BS.
There is no free lunch get over it. It takes more energy to extract hydrogen than you can possibly get by burning it. So you should get less mileage running these scam kits.
People always fall for nonsense like this when fuel prices go up. Try living in reality instead of wishful thinking land.
Ask Engadget: Best LCD monitor under $400? {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 9:52AM Benq G2400W.
Very low input lag. Very accurate color out of the box. No need to calibrate. 24" 1920x1200. Very good black.
http://www.digitalversus.com/duels.php?ty=6&ma1=48&mo1=304&p1=2943&ma2=88&mo2=342&p2=3161&ph=12
A lot of people are erroneously slagging TN panels. Moder TNs are better than VA panels IMO. The horizontal viewing angle is better, speed is faster.
The only knock is the vertical viewing angle. Go check em out in a store. Chances are everyhting in the store is TN.
BTW the Dell 2007FP recommended as IPS are 90% PVA. It is the 2007WFP that was mostly IPS.
Purported Nikon Coolpix P6000 turns up online {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2008 7:21PM All I care about is does it have a sharp lens, because otherwise this has what I am looking for in a compact. To me this is a G9 with a wide angle lens (yay).
The only thing better than this is if someone started using bigger sensors in compacts. I won't hold my breath on that though.
Officially Official: EPA rates 2009 Jetta TDI at 30/41mpg {Autoblog Green}
Jul 6th 2008 10:11AM Canada MPG numbers use Imperial Gallons, not US Gallons, that accounts for most of the difference right there.
Is the Volt nothing more than bailout bait? {Autoblog Green}
Jul 4th 2008 7:51PM @T2:
Why go battery-less? Just go for a small battery/ultra-cap, to even out the load on the engine and actually capture regen energy.
Get rid of 90% of the battery and thus 90% of the weight/cost ( Say 1.6KW $1600, instead of 16KW $16000) also drop the plug in gear.
Saving $16000 in battery cost and 350lbs of weight is nothing to sneeze at .
Keeping a small cost battery gives the drivetrain a lot of flexability and extra efficiency. You still get some limited EV only like the current Prius. Knocking out that major cost battery also lets it compete with the Prius on price.
This would be the only Volt I would be interested in.
Jetta TDI demos turn up at dealers, lots of orders coming in {Autoblog Green}
Jul 3rd 2008 8:44PM Yes and even the guys VW paid to do another test still got no where near VWs outrageous claims from a few months back.
Is the Volt nothing more than bailout bait? {Autoblog Green}
Jul 3rd 2008 8:15PM Agree the 15mpg figure is nuts. Unless GM really screwed the pooch they should get close to current Prius numbers. 40 MPG in charge sustaining mode is not an unreasonable expectation.
Veteran journalist John McElroy calls for EV1 revival; too bad it's not that simple {Autoblog Green}
Jul 3rd 2008 6:18PM Lead acids suck for EV use. Don't get seduced by low prices. The EV1 used 26 VRLA 12volt Deep cycle batteries. These are not cheap. Try quadrupling that $1200 guess. Then you still only get a few hundred cycles. EV-1 Cells were failing very early and the packs where usually toast completely by 20 000miles.
Go read some conversion stories. Lead Acids are total garbage for BEVs. You end up paying as much as higher tech batteries you just pay it in smaller chunks with much more frequent replacements. None of which compete even with expensive gas in cost/mile.
Leads acids were never viable for BEVs and they still aren't.
About the only thing to salvage from the EV1 is the aero shape wish I wish they would of done so, instead of going for a Tonka toy like they did.
Other than that EV1 offered nothing special to bring forward.
