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| Mar 13th, 2005 10:55 PM | ||
| Archduke Tips |
There is a program at my college called "Challenge X" in which they are designing a hybrid SUV for GM. And just as an interesting note, this is one of the technical goals: • Maintain or exceed consumer acceptability in the areas of performance, utility, and safety. |
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| Mar 11th, 2005 06:09 PM | ||
| derrida |
blanco- Chevy sells hybrid silverados with 5.5 liter v8's. there's also a hybrid version of the lexus rx400 |
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| Mar 11th, 2005 12:59 PM | ||
| El Blanco |
Considering how I do haul construction tools and material around on weekends, power is an issue for me. And as for comfort and room, I prefer my folks' Oddessy to my brother's Explorer. And the Oddessy gets killer gas mileage. |
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| Mar 11th, 2005 08:03 AM | ||
| davinxtk |
You get all the size and comfort of a tour bus while saving your soul from eternal damnation, Choji. Americans (you included, Blanco) really really gotta get over the whole "performance" thing with a vehicle. If you drive a V8 that's not regularly towing something, you might as well pour gasoline down the drain. Trust me, it's a more immediately effective (and local!) way to destroy the environment. Performance should be about driving coast to coast on enough gas that you could drink it and live. |
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| Mar 11th, 2005 01:47 AM | ||
| Anonymous | Wait, why would you make an SUV a hybrid? Isn't that sorta an oxymoron? | |
| Mar 11th, 2005 12:56 AM | ||
| El Blanco | the 0-60 thing is to demonstrate horse power and torque, two things a SUV should have plenty of. | |
| Mar 10th, 2005 11:49 PM | ||
| Anonymous |
I agree, there are times when I have to go from 0-60 in well under that figure, and it'll really hurt my interstate drag racing record if I don't do my part in destroying the planet. Yeah, anyway, the last I checked the entire point of getting a hybrid wasn't to set world speed records. |
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| Mar 10th, 2005 08:11 PM | ||
| El Blanco |
The Escape is not a fucking SUV. Not a true one. People buy SUVs for the size. The Escape has all the room of a fucking VW Beetle. Even if the hybrid does make it to the streets by the end of the year (good luck with that) Quote:
And Toyota is offering very little info on the hybrid Highlander. The only actual performance statistic they have one their site is 0-60 in 8 seconds. Not impressive.[/quote] |
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| Mar 10th, 2005 10:29 AM | ||
| ziggytrix |
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| Mar 10th, 2005 05:59 AM | ||
| derrida | blanco: you can mate a hybrid system to any engine you want to | |
| Mar 8th, 2005 11:15 PM | ||
| El Blanco |
They don't make hybrid SUVs. Theytdried, but they can't get suitable horsepower. A good soccer mom wouldn't be caught dead in a Civic Hybrid. Anyway, once again, Kevin is on the same side as me (happening a lot lately). Even if we do have infinite sources of fossil fuels, alternative sources will get us away from making deals with MidEast dictators and make a nice, clean enviroment. |
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| Mar 8th, 2005 09:53 PM | ||
| KevinTheOmnivore | http://www.setamericafree.org/ | |
| Feb 17th, 2005 05:09 PM | ||
| kellychaos | California is about to impose usage taxes on it's highways because they know that hybrid cars are a comin' and that they won't be able to earn so much revenue from fuel taxation in the future. Warm and fuzzy? | |
| Feb 17th, 2005 02:02 AM | ||
| AChimp |
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| Feb 17th, 2005 01:52 AM | ||
| KevinTheOmnivore |
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 Don't get me wrong, I like Friedman, but he has such a fuzzy, warm opinion on globalization that it's enough to make you ill. He does have some good ideas, though. And he's a nice man. |
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| Feb 17th, 2005 01:06 AM | ||
| AChimp |
It's a globalution!  I like Friedman's (I think it was Friedman or I read it in something by him, anyways) idea about how, as a civilization advances, it begins to demand cleaner and cleaner surroundings. Kinda like how we don't live in our own shit anymore as opposed to the Middle Ages. It's only natural that eventually we will switch away from oil. To warp plasma. |
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| Feb 16th, 2005 09:37 PM | ||
| KevinTheOmnivore |
Decreasing our dependancy on foreign oil from monarchiesc and military dictators? Forcing said individuals to turn to their own people and treat them as their resource, yes, that's the point. Saving the environment should be a priority, but untangling ourselves from these regimes (which brings us grief and criticism), hurting them economically, is essential if we truly want to see a more democratic world that doesn't need to be reformed at the barrel of a gun. |
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| Feb 16th, 2005 01:40 PM | ||
| Helm | Because that's the point of everything? | |
| Feb 16th, 2005 12:26 AM | ||
| KevinTheOmnivore |
Every time somebody announces that the world will run out of oil in 50 years, it seems like another surplus is discovered in some former Soviet bloc state. Whether or not the resources are there, and if we will have access to them, seems to be the wrong discussion, IMO. I like Thomas Friedman's perspective, that if we took a turn towards being "geo greens," if we encouraged the perfection and development of alternative energy resources, we could hurt these Islamo-fascist nations where it hurts. |
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| Feb 15th, 2005 07:59 PM | ||
| imported_I, fuzzbot. |
America Will Never Run Out of Energy? the research and writings of Peter W. Huber are quite bizzare, no? http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/huber.htm Basically, he means this: 'We will never run out of energy in regards to fueling our economy and every day life style. It's a metaphoric bottomless well. We won't run out of resources. the federal reserve wouldn't want a devaluation of its property. most of our energy comes from coal, and we have at least a century of that shit just laying around in surplus.' Untrue. In fact, so untrue that electric companies are forced to purchase coal they don't use through a national contract. And then they sell the coal back to the companies at a discount. But whatever. Sure, you have a national surplus of energy. Which you afford to yourselves by invading Middle Eastern countries. What are they but little American states, anyways? |
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