Website review: The Oil Drum | Saving 20 million ba...
laodan discovered this in Energy Industry
•3 reviews since Aug 21, 2007
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•theoildrum.com/node/2883
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laodan discovered 9 months ago- The 100mpg hybrid car should be here, now! in TheOilDrum by Mark Yates
For many years the car companies have said the "the batteries aren't ready" and I'm sick of reading it. They are in fact so "ready" that within a few months to a year 3 relatively small automakers (further details below) will be thumbing their noses at the big 4 auto companies as they bring to market electric cars (and a pickup) with 300-700hp electric motors, 100mph+ top speed and 100-200+ mile ranges per charge. Which might lead many to ask, "why are car companies saying the batteries not ready". Meanwhile, several groups of people such as Calcars have been converting various hybrids into Plugin Hybrids capable of in excess of 100mpg (in combined city/highway driving). The technology easily exists for the 100mpg production car. Please, "big auto" just make some yourselves! The 100mpg hybrid car should be here, now! Tesla Roadster, available Autumn 2007, has an electric motor no bigger than a watermelon One hundred miles a gallon at 10 dollars a gallon would leave the driver with a gas bill identical to his present bill with gas at 3 dollars a gallon and an average of 30 miles per gallon. The difference with vehicles giving 100 miles a gallon would be in: - oil imports drastically reduced meaning a decrease in the current account shortfall and even possibly a positive current account. - emissions drastically reduced meaning that containing climate change would then appear to be feasible.
- The 100mpg hybrid car should be here, now! in TheOilDrum by Mark Yates
- jaycharles rated 9 months ago
- i love it, go electric
- JohnShepler rated 9 months ago
- Outstanding update on the state of electric cars today. It's the newer Lithium Iron battery (different that Lithium ION) that will really make these things practical.
