www.afstrinity.com Title "Extreme Hybrid Showcases Green Technology: Innovative Energy Storage Devices Let One Concept Car Drive 40 Miles On Electric Power Alone" Aired: January 12, 2008 on CBS EVENING NEWS Description: A prototype for an "extreme hybrid" car that runs for 40 miles at 60 mph on battery power alone is on exhibit at Detroit's International Auto Show. Seth Doane reports. 150 miles per gallon SUV. Find out more at www.afstrinity.com Visit or newly launched faqs if you have questions!
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I agree 100%!
With his negative rhetoric he could easily get a job on FOX news telling the viewers that he has just run the numbers and 150 MPG will be bad for the environment. What a dick. Hey jdhilton1952, you don’t have to buy the car if you don’t like it.
Plugging a car to the electric grid is not without costs either. Nonetheless, diversifying the sources of energy use is always good.
Just like the internal combustion engine (ICE) that started out very crude, unreliable and expensive, solar cells, and elec. batteries with a few years R&D will improve. But that R&D research will not happen if we continue to cater to greedy and power hungry corporations like EXXON, OPEC. Who with their unlimited funds will stop at nothing to insure that their dominance continues.
I doubt that many in the US, or the world for that matter, could afford to put out the $90,000.00 for the Tesla roadster or this car. But, watch how fast Lithium battery prices star falling as thousands of new battery manufactures start competing for the millions of autos coming off the assembly lines.
3-5 years! you know what gas will be in that time, beside that the more popular the electric cars become, the less gas we use and faster the gas prices will increase and electric power demand will increase raising the your electric $rates$. Find a renewable energy source for your plug-in car! patent it and sell it cheap, so everyone may buy it, and you will still make more money then you can imagine.
I hate how everyone is still talking about the battery. Lets hunt down Chevron and GM, and DEMAND the batterys we all know they have!
nope. but I did take high school physics.
Then what do you want the car makers to do?
I am not trying to be a smartass just wondering.
Dont response. jdhiton is an Oil CEO
you’re my hero
And yes, Vettemand, a windmill and solar panels would make me happy–but I don’t believe for a minute you’ll do it. I’ve just run the numbers, and in Michigan where I live, PV panels produce electricity at about 25 cents a KWh, compared to 5 cents for a coal plant. Power from utility sized wind generators run about a dime. Like I said, here and now, electric cars are basically running on coal.
I will stick a windmill in my back yard and solar panels on my roof to charge up my car. Will that make you happy then?
Hybrids are just a buzz word. With the amount of driving increasing, not only in American but in almost every other country in the world, the introduction of these new hybrid cars won’t come close to having a serious impact. In other words the hybrid movement will do almost nothing to change the environment. The people who own car companies are fucking idiots who only want your money and they will do whatever it takes to get it including completely manipulating you into wanting a hybrid.
Maybe off peak will then become full time peak power generation.
even off-peak, generating and delivering electricty isn’t cheap–but the video doesn’t even mention what that would cost. Like all electrics, this is just a way of running a car on coal–a long way from green.
A new study for the Department of Energy finds that “off-peak” electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 84 percent of the country’s 220 million vehicles if they were plug-in hybrid electrics. We need to get our power companies to encourage time of use (TOU) metering so that the plug-in hybrids can charge at night off of excess production that would have otherwise been wasted.