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Originally Posted by Deltona Couple
You said that the Tesla DID pass the requirements, therefore I felt safe in assuming you meant even the longevity requirement which is 10 years.
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hehe. check again. I said the Tesla's batteries pass the "won't blow the car up" test.
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I am trying to refer to the here and now. what do we have NOW, and how well you like or dislike what we have currently on the market, and upcoming in the near future.
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And I stand by my original statement. We can achieve the mileage the hybrids are getting with conventional powertrains. We did it 20 years ago. We do it now in Europe. We just aren't doing it here in the states. Why?
At any rate, if we can achieve with a conventional (and therefore less expensive to make, buy, fix, and replace) powertrain, then what advantage does the hybrid powertrain give us? It's another "I feel good about myself" "green" scheme that doesn't actually do much, if anything...Much like the recycling bins we all use even though many of them end up getting dumped into the same landfill as your garbage.
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Personally when it comes to mass production, I think the Volt is going to hit the market first, and stronger than what else may be out there.
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Of course it is. It's made by a (now federally-backed) megacorporation. What chance does Tesla/Zap/Tzero have against that kind of muscle? Hell the guys at Tzero can't even use the regenerative braking AC motor they want to use yet because they don't have the money.
And if it actually works, that will be great, to a point. (we'll ignore the inconvenient fact that charging the Volt requires the coal plant to produce the electricity for it, and therefore causes the emissions directly related to the car to be about on-parity with conventional cars - - at least we aren't wasting gas with it.)
The Volt is closer to what a hybrid car should be - -but I was giving my opinion on currently available hybrids, of which I remain underimpressed.