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  Topic: GM lays off thousands from big suv & truck plants
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Replies: 22
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PostForum: Peak Oil Discussion   Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:50 am   Subject: Re: GM lays off thousands from big suv & truck plants
Aside from just energy prices being high GM and the other domestics have been building inferior products since the 1970s. Pick pretty much most nay American car built before then and it was world cla ...
  Topic: GM lays off thousands from big suv & truck plants
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Replies: 22
Views: 1273

PostForum: Peak Oil Discussion   Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:41 am   Subject: Re: GM lays off thousands from big suv & truck plants
Aside from just energy prices being high GM and the other domestics have been building inferior products since the 1970s. Pick pretty much most nay American car built before then and it was world cla ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
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Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:35 am   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
A metro (2200lb EV/same aero) requires roughly 7kW at the batteries over the old EPA highway cycle (what the XFI was tested with) for 60 miles of highway range assuming a dozen t-105s.okay there's a p ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
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Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:14 am   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
To compare a EV with a ICE is pointless,You want to have a "serious" discussion about the feasibility of EV cars and you don't want to make comparisons like price and performance?

I site I gave a l ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
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Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:35 pm   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
A metro (2200lb EV/same aero) requires roughly 7kW at the batteries over the old EPA highway cycle (what the XFI was tested with) for 60 miles of highway range assuming a dozen t-105s.okay there's a p ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
cube

Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:08 pm   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
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WTF would you even compare the metro to and small EV ?
....you got any better ideas? What do you want me to do, compare the energy efficiency of an SUV to a small EV car? Hows that suppose to ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
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Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:53 pm   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
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What new car sells for $12k? Sure, stuff like the Logan which is for third world countries with crappy currencies, but in a developed country you can't get a new car for under $25k.
Yes you can ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
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Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:58 pm   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
At $4/gallon the XFI costs 6.6cents per mile in fuel plus service. Battery costs for the same vehicle with an electric drivetrain are the same or less depending on if the driver is o.k. with reduced r ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
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Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:19 pm   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
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I don't remember the brand, long duck dong manufacturing. I hate scooters, but there you go. It is being done, just not here.
no
You have it all mixed up, it was manufactured here!
http://sta ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
cube

Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:10 pm   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
Have a look at this beauties small and cheap the future of America's roads.

This is why EV cars will NEVER be economically viable

geo metro xfi specs:
year from 1989 through 1994
cost $6,999 O ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
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Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:55 am   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
...What is going on is a widespread wanking by software development jerk-offs thinking that vehicles are just like writing code for doomIII.If these tech geeks like, Elon Musk, who made their fortune ...
  Topic: CPI updated - is it believable?
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Replies: 43
Views: 3665

PostForum: Depletion Economics   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:39 am   Subject: Re: CPI updated - is it believable?
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But I cannot see people falling for this for 40 years. At some point, someone will say, "Hey! My Social Security check now buys 1 loaf of bread!"
....Social security and probably a lot of other ...
  Topic: High Fuel Costs Threaten Bankruptcy for Truckers
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Replies: 31
Views: 1136

PostForum: Depletion Economics   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:09 am   Subject: Re: High Fuel Costs Threaten Bankruptcy for Truckers
I completely agree. Hybrids only shine in start/stop environments, not running down the highway. A big diesel hybrid would need prohibitively expensive regenerative braking to offset the enormous dema ...
  Topic: Alberta
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Replies: 75
Views: 1854

PostForum: Peak Oil Discussion   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:30 am   Subject: Re: Alberta
What would you know Pstarr, you wouldn't know what a Scotford upgrader was if i showed it to you.
You never did answer my question what are Shell, SunCor and Husky doing in the field? If you can't a ...
  Topic: Tesla Electric Car
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Replies: 73
Views: 1672

PostForum: Current Energy News   Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 12:05 am   Subject: Re: Tesla Electric Car
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You also have to assume that someone who would have enough money lying around to blow on a tesla wouldn't be caught dead in anything less than a $50,000 car anyway Smile.I think you're onto somethin ...
 
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