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The top 10 Hybrid myths (Autos alert)
Business Week ^
| 2/12/06
| B Berman
Posted on 02/13/2006 10:36:24 AM PST by voletti
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:36:26 AM PST
by
voletti
To: voletti
Any product that has acquired 10 myths must have serious issues, no matter if they are real myths or not.
To: voletti
Should have been 11 myths. They left out the myth that Hybrids' actually get 50-60 miles per gallon as it says on the sticker.
To: voletti
That plug-in thing kind of aggravates me. If you could just get to work and home on a battery charge, why bother with gas?
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:44:16 AM PST
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: voletti
This was very interesting--thanks for providing it. I plan to replace my current car in about five years, and will be willing to consider a hybrid. Performance, reliability, and cost are the important factors to me, though I'd also love it if we could tell the world "No thanks, we don't need your oil any more." I realize we're nowhere near that point now.
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:44:50 AM PST
by
American Quilter
(Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick)
To: SteveMcKing
All new technologies take time to mature.
At one time "Get a horse!" was a serious comment.
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:45:51 AM PST
by
El Sordo
To: voletti
Hybrids are so passe. I heard on the Phil Hendry show about the latest technology: wind-powered cars.
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:45:51 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: voletti
And if your commute back and forth to work is downhill in both directions you won't use ANY gas at all !!!!
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:45:57 AM PST
by
AbeKrieger
(Hey Muslims - time to stop the MuhamMadness.)
To: SteveMcKing
Any product that has acquired 10 myths must have serious issues, no matter if they are real myths or not. You mean the myths are "fake but accurate", huh?
To: Jeff Chandler
That would probably work well for Hendry.
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:47:48 AM PST
by
LexBaird
("I'm not questioning your patriotism, I'm answering your treason."--JennysCool)
To: American Quilter
You'll pay about 10 grand more for a vehicle with specialized mechanical needs and phony MPG ratings.
Save the Whales!
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:48:02 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: voletti
When hot young women start driving these, maybe I'll care.
To: voletti
I think all you guys should go out and immediately buy a Prius.
(I need the gas for my Mustang)
To: Jeff Chandler
You'll pay about 10 grand more for a vehicle with specialized mechanical needs and phony MPG ratings. No I won't--I'm not buying one unless I'm sure it's a good deal financially! (I do appreciate the warning, though.) I just said I'd consider it. I consider a lot of things, like eating Brussels sprouts, that I end up deciding aren't worth doing.
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:50:21 AM PST
by
American Quilter
(Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick)
To: voletti
I don't know how true this is, but I heard that it can cost upward of $4500.00 to have a battery pack replaced in the hybrids. Is this correct?
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:50:58 AM PST
by
duckman
(I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
To: voletti
An electric car that recharges from the power grid actually uses more energy in total than a gasoline engine. The vast majority of our electricity is generated with coal, gas and fuel oil. At each conversion of energy you lose a certain percentage of the total energy available in the fuel. You lose energy when you convert fuel to motive power for the electric turbine, you lose energy in the transmission of the electricity to your house, you lose energy when you charge the batteries of the car, you lose energy when the battery discharges to run the electric motor of the car. The whole concept of charging car batteries from electric power is a loser unless the electricity is coming from nuclear power plants, or renewable sources. To run an electric car from batteries that are recharged from the electric grid will use more hydrocarbons than the gasoline to run the car. Nuclear and solar (if they ever get the cost of solar panels down to economic levels) is the way out of our energy mess.
If the green weenies and the liberals will just keep their damn hands off the market place it will take care of the problem.
PS
Considering the recent record snow fall in New York and Bitter Cold in Europe, this would be a good time to do poll of the public in those area about their belief in Global Warming.
PS PS
I forgot to add it is Bush's Fault. :)
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:51:53 AM PST
by
cpdiii
(roughneck (oil field trash and proud of it), geologist, pilot, pharmacist, full time iconoclast)
To: Jeff Chandler; American Quilter
Don't forget the "tax benefit for the rich"- the USG subsidizes up to $3000 of your new hybrid purchase, as well as providing tax incentives for the manufacturers.
Other than that, hybrids seem to be OK. A hybrid pickup with the power and load capacity of mine would be great if it used less gas and cost $20,000.
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:51:54 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: cpdiii
so what, we have plenty of coal and can produce electricity from that, and perhaps get a few more nuclear plants built. the idea is to use less gasoline, period, and therefore import less oil.
To: SteveMcKing
Any product that has acquired 10 myths...With the publication of this article it looks as if there are twenty myths now.
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posted on
02/13/2006 10:54:40 AM PST
by
FreePaul
To: Jeff Chandler
I heard on the Phil Hendry show about the latest technology: wind-powered cars. Wasn't there an early American who harnessed the wind to power his wagon across the Great Planes? I think his name was "Windwagon Smith".
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