Looks like Japanese auto companies have seen the light, wonder if Government Motors and Obama will follow?
1 posted on
02/04/2013 10:42:12 AM PST by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
Hell no, they’ll double down now that they have the market all to themselves!.........
2 posted on
02/04/2013 10:46:07 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: jazusamo
if socialists admitted to reality they would not be socialists.
3 posted on
02/04/2013 10:46:57 AM PST by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: jazusamo
4 posted on
02/04/2013 10:47:04 AM PST by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: jazusamo
Time for the Skeeter to double down.
To: jazusamo
Someone posted this question here a few years ago:
Who buys a used hybrid?
7 posted on
02/04/2013 10:59:37 AM PST by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: jazusamo
There’s still the inevitable corporate embarrassment of untold millions of Priuses needing new $10K+ battery packs a few years down the road. There will be more of those things littering the highways than beer cans at some point.
8 posted on
02/04/2013 10:59:45 AM PST by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: jazusamo
Because of its shortcomings driving range, cost and recharging time the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars A fact which every halfway knowledgeable person knew without having to invest several hundred billion dollars to experiment.
9 posted on
02/04/2013 11:01:16 AM PST by
Iron Munro
(I Miss America, don't you?)
To: jazusamo; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Because of its shortcomings driving range, cost and recharging time Not to speak of:
10 posted on
02/04/2013 11:02:44 AM PST by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: jazusamo
Not so PC in Japan. No American would give up on it or they’d be pilloried by all our fools.
11 posted on
02/04/2013 11:04:21 AM PST by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Red Badger
12 posted on
02/04/2013 11:06:20 AM PST by
Army Air Corps
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13 posted on
02/04/2013 11:08:21 AM PST by
jazusamo
("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
To: jazusamo
Explain how the vice-chairman of Nissan can be the father of Toyota’s Prius? Great reporting.
16 posted on
02/04/2013 11:17:22 AM PST by
Jagman
To: jazusamo
Follow? General Motors demonstrated a fuel cell vehicle in 1966.
26 posted on
02/04/2013 11:37:48 AM PST by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
To: jazusamo
What idiot wrote this article and headline? Its not about the Prius or other hybrids, it about all electric cars. Also, the “grandfather of the Prius” does not work for Nissan, sheesh.
32 posted on
02/04/2013 11:56:58 AM PST by
Paradox
(Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
To: jazusamo
Years ago our school was given a grant ($12,000 plus local business donations) to convert a conventional car to an electric (battery) powered pure electric car. We used a lead acid battery set (96V) and a 100VDC motor.
The thing was an eye opener:
On the plus side it had acceleration like a scalded cat. It also had a pretty high peak speed for dashes.
On the negative side, we added nearly 1,000 pounds to the curb weight because of the battery set.
It had a max range of about 12 miles then took 20 hours to recharge.
The 96 VDC systems were prone to failure with lots of thermal problems.
Environmentally, it was a disaster. We had to constantly dispose of the lead acid batteries IAW EPA regulations. The energy to charge the battery still derived directly from commercial power so we used fossil fuels, nuclear power and LNG generated electricity
Early on, we saw that a hybrid system or fuel cell system was going to be much more feasible, reliable and economical.
The distressing part, to me, was that we told our sponsors (DOE, DOT and EPA) of these innovations and the shortcomings of a pure battery drive and they refused to allow us to improve any technology as we learned, at risk losing the grant money.
After three years, I pulled the plug on our project. It was going nowhere in terms of technology beyond being a large equivalent to an RC car.
Seeing the way the government still throws money into the battery powered car pit, I see nothing has really changed. I'm glad the manufacturers are exercising their right to opt out of this lunacy. They have to deal with reality to stay in business.
36 posted on
02/04/2013 12:17:25 PM PST by
pfflier
To: jazusamo
37 posted on
02/04/2013 12:54:17 PM PST by
tomkat
To: jazusamo
What? A range of 35 miles is not good enough? Geez. /s
43 posted on
02/04/2013 3:47:17 PM PST by
ataDude
(Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
To: jazusamo; a fool in paradise
This (foolish) move by the Japanese screams 0pportunity with a big '0'. LOet us hope that Government Motors picks it up and runs with it to corner the vast battery operated automobile market!
47 posted on
02/04/2013 4:51:27 PM PST by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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