On Jun 7, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Mark Abramowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> But not matching the Tesla in one important (to me, anyway) respect - > emissions. Well, yes and no. It'll mostly be an all-electric vehicle -- to the point that, as with Volt owners, save for road trips, I'll have to pay attention to not letting the gasoline get stale in the tank. When the gasoline motor is running, it'll mostly be cruising at freeway speeds, where it's at its most efficient. In hybrid mode, I'll be able to shift almost all of the acceleration load to the electric motors and apply just enough regen when cruising to keep enough charge in the batteries for that purpose. And the engine is going to have a modern self-tuning fuel injection system, so that maximum efficiency and minimum emissions are pretty much guaranteed, at least for this type of engine. And the electricity for the batteries will be generated from the solar panels on my rooftop. And it doesn't have the Tesla's not insubstantial manufacturing environmental, especially considering that most people buying Teslas have been buying new cars every three to five years, whereas this is the first car I've ever bought, the second car I've ever owned, and the other car I still own and is also older than I am. ...not to mention it costing a tiny fraction of the price of a Tesla. Or the fact that I'll be able to easily upgrade the battery pack with newer technology as it makes economic sense (and, presumably, re-purpose the old one for grid backup / peak shaving / whatever). And it'll never spy on me, unless I make it do so. So, it might not be as ideologically pure as a Tesla, but it's damned close, and the Tesla ain't so lily-white, either. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150607/f8d35dbb/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
