Not that I can help directly but, what about having enough cars to show the evolution of electric cars? From the wedgie little boxes to today's "That's...
OPEC members have already become quite wealthy from oil revenues, so seems funny they're so concerned. I wouldn't mind seeing their sales go down, although I...
It would not break my heart to see the OPEC nations being forced to go back to herding goats! mark ... -- "Human Misery is caused by human expectations."...
I have a somewhat different reaction to some of this. They are saying to the west to acknowledge that a de facto major business relationship is in place....
"We'd like to see storage ubiquitous," says Imre Gyuk, head of energy storage for the Department of Energy, which helped fund the AEP project. "Stick it any...
It's pretty much as simple as that. Never mind the complex rationcinations as to legal liability, or the direct lies about consumer demand, or the parsing of...
Anyone have any counter-examples? I heard on the radio today Chevrolet sponsoring Earth Day and getting "mileage" out of the "Volt Concept". The title "Volt...
I wanted to point out what seems to be they hypocrisy of automakers' claims of concern about safety and legal liability. They have destroyed EVs partly under...
You are being much too hard on the auto manufacturers. Instead, look back at how they have learned from their mistakes and improved over the years. Back in the...
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:12:21 -0000, "doug korthof" <live_oil_free@...> wrote: This is an important move, and we have had short notice. Anyone with a...
I picked up this interesting item from Felix Kramer /CalCars.org /Ernie Rogers ... Here's a very revealing article about the impact of the woes of Detroit...
We recently acquired a bi-fuel Compressed Natural Gas(CNG)/Gasoline 2001 Chevy Cavalier, with less than 4,000 miles on it. I'm not much on sedans but I am...
[Default] On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 09:32:06 -0700 (PDT), Lee Dekker ... [...] ... A very interesting response. I thought you missed the opportunity to strengthen it...
One supposes they have an excuse for why they can do it in Europe but not in the US. I don't want to hear it. The big three, along with the oil companies do...
Some time ago Honda announced they were expanding sales into other states for their Civic GX (CNG). Their web site states it is currently available for...
Dear Kathy, Regarding CNG cars , anybody knows of the following ppoints: 1- how much horse power ,do we get from same size of the engine comare to petrol cars...
I do know the answers to some of those questions. 1. Horsepower - Specs say 115 @ 5000 RPM. 2. Mileage - Spec say 23 city, 31 highway. I am getting around 25 ...
Dear Kathy, Refer to your reply , can you clearly tell me if you travel 1000 km with one tank of 45 liter gasoline (about 35 USD) on a Toyota Prious , then...
Only issue I see with your calculations here is Daihatsu is owned by Toyota not GM....... Last I checked Toyota's world head quarters are in Japan not Detroit?...
Time to take your preferred gasoline powered model car on a driving "holiday" to Canada for a day or 2? Disclaimer : I have never been to the USA and do not...
The kilometer/mile converter I found online said that a kilometer is equal to .625 miles. The gasoline tank holds 14.3 gallons (about 54 liters) and it gets...
Dear Kathy, The figures you are giving is perfect! you are paying $24 instead of $76 to travel 1000 kilometers but you need to refill your car about 5to 6...
I see, the DC version appears to be an older model. Still, I wonder if DC or AC is inherently more or less efficient. On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:34:09 +0100,...
Looks like lead-acid batteries and a vehicle price of $17k USD to $18k new. (8.5k to 9k GBP). 40-48 miles range AC (depending on roads), 32-40 miles DC...
I believe AC is more efficient and is the reason it is used in the "production" style vehicles. It also lends itself naturally to regen. It is more expensive...
Sayedali, We live about 9 miles from the nearest fill site so filling every other day doesn't bother us, especially with the savings!! We just run other...
Anyone know about these people?? http://www.axionpower.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 "We are developing and intend to design, manufacture and...
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