Dano Moparo

I posted a story about this a couple months ago.

https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...ve-energy.html


hybrids= overhype

fresh&clean

Hybrids are almost as big as a joke as the people who drive them.

Eric

+1 thats why i like the article...it takes more money to make and buy than it would save you in gas by far....so just go cheap and get a hummer

fastforward

I think the saturn greenline hybrids are supposed to be more ecologically sound than that of the toyota's and they are less complicated and require less specialized equipment. They are a lot more simple in how they work. I'd like to see how the two compare from a ecological impact standard.

BTW- If Al Gore thinks he's all better than thou, when it comes to the environment, then maybe he shouldn't be flying around in a private jet (lots of exhaust) big tour busses (lots of gas) and living in a huge ass house(s) (lots of wasted energy.) He has more impact on the environment than all of us on this site combined.

shinmei2006

so are 90% of modified hondas IMO


Tesla Motors

if you think that is ugly...then all that honda has gone to your head

Silvia_San

not that i fully believe that article...but i do indeed hate hybrid cars. and i'm super serial guys.

EliteZ

The car above looks better than Honda's but a hefty price tag.

Aoshi

The tesla motors car is sexy, unlike all other hybrids and electric cars.

Anyone who goes to the site to look at it, look at the FAQ, and scroll down to where it says what happens after 500 charging cycles, they completly go around the question at hand. They need to just say, oh your performance will go down, then youll throw the car away. Or say you can replace the battery.

Either way, 92k base price, too much, get it to like 10-15k, and they'd sell so fast. Double the motors power and make a nice looking suv and truck, heh, goodbye gas engines.

Da_lurker

when you are talking about cost per mile and you include the vehicle's inital cost etc you cannot make say that at 100k for the prius it will cost you x per mile and then say that at 300k the hummer is cheaper. it is the same cost figures spread out over a larger mile range.

i do agree that the hybrid is a bandaid to a bigger problem, but something needs to be done. ever looked at the emmision systems on an early 80's american car? holy shit what a disaster, a pile of bandaids. eventually hybrids , and their tech, will evolve into something a little more useful.

and it is not like the mine in canada was dug just to make batteries for the prius. the battery in the hummers is not exactly eco-friendly

myltwon

a hybrid takes around 5 years to offset the cost difference from it and it's base model counter-part from STICKERED gas savings. plus hybrids don't get near the gas mileage that they claim