TKE-Teg All American 43415 Posts user info edit post |
They're on their way back. If you actually look at the models they've come out with and are still developing you can see it. IMO they're in much better shape than Ford. 6/12/2008 11:41:42 AM |
Quinn All American 16417 Posts user info edit post |
toyota and honda will have had hybrid car models for 10 years by the time the volt is released.
Are you really in denial that they short funded engineering directed towards a growing sector of automobiles (hybrids) to get immediate gains on the SUV craze?
[Edited on June 13, 2008 at 12:30 AM. Reason : .] 6/13/2008 12:29:32 AM |
tsavla All American 6787 Posts user info edit post |
gg chevy
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/19/chevy-volt-plug-in-hybrid-priced-at-40-000/ 6/19/2008 3:21:07 PM |
TKE-Teg All American 43415 Posts user info edit post |
^^so what. We get it, you hate GM. But a sales slump of SUVs and increasing demand for hybrids has very little to do with the real reason GM's been in financial trouble for a while. Good lord you're nothing but a broken record.
^its more expensive than regular hybrid tech, are you surprised? Toyota and Honda already lose money on every hybrid they make.
[Edited on June 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM. Reason : k] 6/19/2008 3:28:32 PM |
Igor All American 6672 Posts user info edit post |
it looks similar to a $40k caddy =)
technology doesnt come cheap, people.
If you want a cheap hibrid, consider TATA's "FartCar"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7241909.stm 6/19/2008 3:33:57 PM |
MattJM321 All American 4003 Posts user info edit post |
You know, GM's shares are really down right now (<$15). I'm thinking about buying a little chunk of them and holding on for a while... 6/19/2008 3:38:15 PM |
TKE-Teg All American 43415 Posts user info edit post |
yeah seriously, soon as I get some extra cash to invest GMs on my mind. 6/19/2008 4:46:27 PM |
Quinn All American 16417 Posts user info edit post |
[quote]so what. We get it, you hate GM.[quote]
I've never once said I hate GM. None of my posts said that. You wanted me to say "gm sucks". I said their management poorly focused their engineering staff. It's not like I went out on a limb, look at their fucking product line.
You're just like every other Honda fan boy. You want to appear unbiased (by backing GM, I mean come on dude) but we all know you would give your left fucking testicle if Honda designed any vehicle even remotely classed to compete with BMW (Read : inline 6 / turbo, RWD). 6/19/2008 6:00:55 PM |
beethead All American 6513 Posts user info edit post |
ok so you hate GM, love BMW, and cant figure out how to quote..
we get it
[Edited on June 19, 2008 at 6:08 PM. Reason : sarcasm] 6/19/2008 6:08:37 PM |
Quinn All American 16417 Posts user info edit post |
6/19/2008 6:14:59 PM |
TKE-Teg All American 43415 Posts user info edit post |
I don't know why you finger me a Honda fanboy. I'm not and I haven't shown any bias towards them.
Geez, now I know how C&Der feel. 6/19/2008 6:46:12 PM |
Wyloch All American 4245 Posts user info edit post |
Whatev. The only thing that's kept me from buying a hybrid so far is that there is no solution out there with any kind of style. This beauty will change that for me.
[Edited on June 19, 2008 at 10:44 PM. Reason : ] 6/19/2008 10:44:20 PM |
Igor All American 6672 Posts user info edit post |
high gas prices and current state of li-ion battery technology got things moving. looks like a few startups jumping on the electric car deal. open-wheel roadster, sport sedan, pickup truck, castrated airplane, and a 3-wheeled enclosed scootercycle - id say we'll be seeing some diversity. i'd keep my fingers crossed, since this category is known for not following through from concept to production.
all this according to the communits news network http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/autos/0806/gallery.electric_cars_now/index.html 6/28/2008 3:53:02 PM |
0EPII1 All American 42547 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/14/gm-releasess-new-production-volt-teasers/ 8/14/2008 8:18:37 PM |
ScHpEnXeL Suspended 32613 Posts user info edit post |
I have to admit that if the Volt ends up being everything it's cracked up to be, I will seriously consider buying one. My commute to work is short enough that I could easily get there and back on one battery charge.. Ultimately it could pay for itself. 8/14/2008 8:45:40 PM |
Quinn All American 16417 Posts user info edit post |
it looks like they are building panels for it like american choppers.
no wonder this shit falls apart 8/15/2008 7:11:35 AM |
smoothcrim Universal Magnetic! 18968 Posts user info edit post |
I get that people want less gas and less airborn polutants, but no one seems concerned with the environmental impact and long term cost of batteries and battery manufacture. I don't intend on buying a hybrid purely because of that. I mean look at the aftermath of farming for the nickel to make current technology batteries 8/15/2008 7:29:45 PM |
Seotaji All American 34244 Posts user info edit post |
^ yep. i have convinced my dad that it's a bad idea. you can recycle batteries, but you still have the most toxic parts that can't be reprocessed left. 8/15/2008 7:44:22 PM |
bcvaugha All American 2587 Posts user info edit post |
I wish they'd get that dang venture1 on the road. I've been on the "buyer" list now forever it feels like. 8/15/2008 10:29:46 PM |
Mindstorm All American 15858 Posts user info edit post |
^^^ Well, if you read into that more, that's a site that's been a mine for well over a century, that had shoddy environmental standards (because nobody gave a fuck until later on in the 20th century), and that is now improving its standards quite a bit. The site is a wasteland simply because it's been treated like shit for so long.
^^ Nuclear power has a similar problem. 8/15/2008 10:57:37 PM |
quagmire02 All American 44225 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Nuclear power has a similar problem." |
true...but the amount of power generated versus the amount of waste is higher than it is with batteries (i think)8/16/2008 8:58:24 AM |
Seotaji All American 34244 Posts user info edit post |
^ yes, that's why i don't mind nuclear. how i feel about reprocessing that is a different topic altogether.
honda is releasing a prius killer soon. in the $20,000 range. if i EVER considered something like that, it would most likely be a honda. ya gotta wonder though, why they would release something that would be cheaper than their civic hybrid? 8/16/2008 12:02:00 PM |
Mindstorm All American 15858 Posts user info edit post |
^^ I'm just saying that emerging technology might not be super clean and we already live with some toxic waste that we're hoping future technology will be able to treat/reduce with some success.
I'm not a big fan of everybody buying cars that leave around toxic shit that'll probably get sent to India one day for some ghetto recycling, but it is an important step in vehicle design to have cars that can operate off of multiple fuel sources and that increase overall efficiency in how they use those fuels. There will always be people who object/protest stuff for some batshit crazy reason, and I'd like to at least give cars like this a chance before shooting them down as biosphere-killing crapwagons. 8/16/2008 1:09:11 PM |
ScHpEnXeL Suspended 32613 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "ya gotta wonder though, why they would release something that would be cheaper than their civic hybrid?" |
hum maybe bc they could sell a shit ton of them?
just a guess8/16/2008 1:22:36 PM |
Seotaji All American 34244 Posts user info edit post |
yeah that and 60mpg instead of the prius' 40 is all good too. 8/16/2008 1:54:29 PM |
quagmire02 All American 44225 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "ya gotta wonder though, why they would release something that would be cheaper than their civic hybrid?" |
also, IIRC, the new car is less in the way of performance and styling (i mean, the prius isn't exactly pretty, but it's pretty aerodynamic)...you buy the new car for mileage only, not for pretty or even minimal performance (comparatively)8/16/2008 9:31:43 PM |
Seotaji All American 34244 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/07/29/2009-honda-hybrid-system-cost-to-be-cut-in-half/ 8/17/2008 12:59:12 AM |
Str8BacardiL ************ 41754 Posts user info edit post |
^ very niiice 8/17/2008 1:12:11 AM |
smoothcrim Universal Magnetic! 18968 Posts user info edit post |
http://automobiles.honda.com/civic-gx/ 8/17/2008 8:54:04 AM |
Seotaji All American 34244 Posts user info edit post |
do you realize how expensive NGV vehicles are to fuel? yeah, my heating bills are expensive enough without having to add a fill station onto my house line and worry about people trying to steal my shit.
it takes 16 hours to refill an almost empty tank. 220-250 miles on one tank. wow that's bad.
heating bill in winter: $150.
w/NGV vehicle?: $450.
gasoline is still more cost efficient and i'd rather drive a 60mpg diesel. 8/17/2008 12:09:42 PM |
Aficionado Suspended 22518 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I'm just saying that emerging technology might not be super clean and we already live with some toxic waste that we're hoping future technology will be able to treat/reduce with some success." |
we can already reprocess more that 95% of the bad stuff out of nuclear waste8/17/2008 12:15:17 PM |
smoothcrim Universal Magnetic! 18968 Posts user info edit post |
which france does, we're just too afraid to do because we don't want weapons grade plutonium powering out homes 8/17/2008 1:51:49 PM |
Aficionado Suspended 22518 Posts user info edit post |
which after about 30 days in a rector there is too much Pu-240 to use it to make a weapon 8/17/2008 2:11:34 PM |
Mindstorm All American 15858 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "we can already reprocess more that 95% of the bad stuff out of nuclear waste" |
Which is exactly why we shouldn't look at this new vehicle technology as a bad thing. It's just something that has to be regulated a bit so that companies/mechanics/assholes don't dispose of it in a landfill and so it gets sent to a storage facility. Part of the cost of maintaining that facility can simply be factored into the price of the car and nobody ever had to worry about it. Drives me nuts that people just love to freak out about shit due to scaremongering people with nothing better to do (about nuke power, cars, and whatever else is out there).8/17/2008 5:57:11 PM |
beethead All American 6513 Posts user info edit post |
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/03/revealed-volksw.html
thoughts? even tho we'll probably never see it...
i'm still waiting for them to bring over the Polo 8/18/2008 3:08:03 PM |
quagmire02 All American 44225 Posts user info edit post |
^ yeah, good luck ever seeing it HERE...also, NiMH battery? i thought most of the hybrids used Li-ION batteries since they were lighter and smaller (albeit more expensive) for the same capacity and better recharge times 8/19/2008 8:50:23 AM |
0EPII1 All American 42547 Posts user info edit post |
Production version seen.
Reader Spy: Chevy Volt caught on set of Transformers 2 http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/28/reader-spy-chevy-volt-caught-from-the-beltline-up/
Spy Shot: Production interior of Chevy Volt (maybe) http://www.autoblog.com/2008/08/28/spy-shot-chevy-volt-interior-maybe/ 8/29/2008 2:02:55 AM |
Igor All American 6672 Posts user info edit post |
what is it, classified as a minivan now?
maybe the pics are really bad, or they had to go for usual compromises due to the production costs and safety, but that production car looks a shitton gayer. even saying it now looks like a scion would be a compliment.
gg GM thanks for going through with the deal, but why? didn't learn on the Aztec i guess
and BTW it suppposed to look 'cpensive if yall gonna go through with the price hike. 8/29/2008 1:57:33 PM |
0EPII1 All American 42547 Posts user info edit post |
First Official Images of Production Chevy Volt Leak Out
http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080908.017/first-official-images-of-production-chevy-volt-leak-out
9/8/2008 7:58:18 PM |
optmusprimer All American 30318 Posts user info edit post |
hey dickhead, that happened last week. 9/8/2008 8:01:31 PM |
0EPII1 All American 42547 Posts user info edit post |
You are wrong.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080908/AUTO01/809080428/1148/rss25
And learn some manners. 9/8/2008 8:27:32 PM |
Seotaji All American 34244 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "i thought most of the hybrids used Li-ION batteries since they were lighter and smaller (albeit more expensive) for the same capacity and better recharge times" |
you thought wrong. do you know the price difference between NiMH and Lithium Ion? it's quite a bit more. just compare the price of a NiMH AA to one made of Li-ion. as an example, the prius would have exceeded $30k base if it used li-ion, which is quite a bit more than the $24k base price.9/8/2008 9:26:56 PM |
ScHpEnXeL Suspended 32613 Posts user info edit post |
why do they always make the efficient ones look like shit.. Jesus Detroit do you really want to go bankrupt?
to
[Edited on September 8, 2008 at 9:38 PM. Reason : wtf] 9/8/2008 9:37:16 PM |
quagmire02 All American 44225 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "you thought wrong. do you know the price difference between NiMH and Lithium Ion? it's quite a bit more. just compare the price of a NiMH AA to one made of Li-ion. as an example, the prius would have exceeded $30k base if it used li-ion, which is quite a bit more than the $24k base price." |
fair enough, then...am i at least right in my understanding that li-ion is a more efficient battery, even if it's more expensive?
Quote : | "why do they always make the efficient ones look like shit.. Jesus Detroit do you really want to go bankrupt?" |
i don't think they do it intentionally, nor do i think that they have a large range of options...the reason these cars are so efficient is because they're highly aerodynamic (look at the prius...they can't even add a sunroof to it because the pitch of the roof can't be modified enough to allow it without hurting the aerodynamics and damaging the efficiency)
or so i've heard...i'm by no means an expert9/8/2008 9:46:20 PM |
smc All American 9221 Posts user info edit post |
Hahahaha
This will be a greater failure than the EV1.
I'm actually a little saddened. 9/8/2008 10:07:26 PM |
nacstate All American 3785 Posts user info edit post |
9/8/2008 10:35:27 PM |
Seotaji All American 34244 Posts user info edit post |
^HONDA did it!
Quote : | "fair enough, then...am i at least right in my understanding that li-ion is a more efficient battery, even if it's more expensive?" |
yes. too bad it isn't cost effective.9/8/2008 10:49:04 PM |
Mindstorm All American 15858 Posts user info edit post |
They made it look kind of like the cross between an acura and a toyota prius with some of the normal GM styling cues.
It'll probably be a hit with their loyal customers. At its price point though, people could just go buy a prius. 9/8/2008 10:53:34 PM |
TKE-Teg All American 43415 Posts user info edit post |
^^then why the hell did they make the concept look badass. Just setting themselves up.
This "production" version looks smooth and thick. Good? No
^oh if you're comparing it to the Prius it looks awesome! The Prius is trash
[Edited on September 8, 2008 at 10:56 PM. Reason : fuck the Prius] 9/8/2008 10:55:18 PM |
Quinn All American 16417 Posts user info edit post |
If you're going to complain an aerodynamic vehicle designed around efficient fuel consumption is ugly you may as well complain about how slow it is.
Have you guys ever engineered anything in your lives? 9/9/2008 8:03:44 AM |