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When will affordable, fully-electric cars come around? (pg. 3)
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| Beat Blog |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
Buy a small, european 4 cylinder turbo diesel if you want something that costs nothing to run and is highly efficient. Petrol-Electrics are a complete crock when it comes to fuel economy compared to a good turbo diesel engine, (much more refined engineering now) the ones in VW golf's and jetta's seem to be amongst the best. |
Cheaper and better for the environment that idiot Americans driving F250's, Hummers and Cadillacs, yes. Not that good though!
My car (Golf GTi) costs about $75 per tank.
6-7L/100km on freeway though. :) |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Twin-turbo, high performance Mitsubishi engines for the win, huh? :p |
It's surprisingly economical on the open road (9.5L per 100km), just around town stomping it will make Panda's explode and kill hippy children quicker than you can say 'Dole is cancelled' |
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| Beat Blog |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
It's surprisingly economical on the open road (9.5L per 100km), just around town stomping it will make Panda's explode and kill hippy children quicker than you can say 'Dole is cancelled' |
pics plz. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
It's surprisingly economical on the open road (9.5L per 100km), just around town stomping it will make Panda's explode and kill hippy children quicker than you can say 'Dole is cancelled' |
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| Beat Blog |
:wtf:
the De Lorean running on garbage - this thing runs on thin air!
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That's incredible.
edit: the power-collecting system by vehicle traffic:
http://www.theaircar.com/acf/air-cars/energy-storage.html
That's damn smart, I'm surprised that's never been thought of. Would be very hard to implement though, the ground is already riddled with power and sewerage lines, and digging 100,000 new holes would be tough. |
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| neovalkyr |
| Once the oil runs out the world as we know it will come to an end. There will be chaos, 300 million useless hunks of metal called "cars". Millions of people not able to get to work on time if at all. Its not just cars that run on oil, but aircraft as well. And im pretty sure there arent any electric planes. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Theresa
Obviously the people who made the decision to pull them off the roads weren't forward thinkers. Likely a bunch of old men who couldn't see past their wrinkly old noses. |
I'm pretty sure those cars were just concept cars, and were never meant to be mass manufactured/sold to the public. At least this is what I learned from the automotive students in my liberal studies course. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by biznology
plus most assume that electric is just by default, better.
that electricity comes from somewhere and its usually a cheap coal burning power plant, which may be far less environmentally friendly than the average honda. |
That's why we should use nuclear power. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
Then we'd be dependent on power coming out of our walls, which is for the most part made by coal, which is just as bad as oil. This can be fixed with wind power etc though. |
Wind power sucks.
Nuclear is the future. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by neovalkyr
Once the oil runs out the world as we know it will come to an end. There will be chaos, 300 million useless hunks of metal called "cars". Millions of people not able to get to work on time if at all. |
Oil isn't going to just suddenly run out.
Like any other non-renewable resource, production will gradually decrease until prices become too high for its use to be feasible anymore. As this happens, other sources of energy will start to look more feasible, spurring development of them. |
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| trewqy |
Some of the electric cars that were produced in the past were invented just to shut the hippies up.
I learned that while watching Ironman.:gsmile: |
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