Dying for a Chevy Volt, but....

How many steam locomotives do you see?

It was cost and maintenance that doomed them.

You also have the "water" problem. A steam engine uses more water than fuel, that needs to be replaced and it needs to be pretty clean water if you don't want to be de-scaling your boiler all the time.

The only advantage to steam as you can burn anything that gets hot but these days you will need stack scrubbers of some sort.

First, most of what you just said is lying bullshit. I already said the Volt design IS the right design. It just should not be $45K. And yeah, lightweight would help, 2 airbags would suffice, etc.

He COULD

Apparently neither of you have taken apart an ICE or a transmission. When you do, post back.

Dudes: Electric car = battery + motor....... WTF part of battery+motor don't you get??

Sure, you can MAKE s*it as complicated as you want.... dat dudn't mean it actually has to BE that complicated. YOU think so, because you can't tell up from down, but that dudn't make it so.

If the gummint were serious about going green, the Volt subsidy should have the car net out to no more than $20K. It would then FLY off the shelves, and eventually support itself.... like, uh, the Prius C, at $18.9K.

Two rungs don't make a route.

It's you who doesn't get it. You keep claiming that building an electric car is trivial. All the world's auto manufacturers, who actually are doing it, don't seem to think so. For example, what part of a big honking battery suitable to power a car being, large, heavy and expensive, don't you get? Yeah, it's just a battery, but so far no one knows how to make one that stores a lot of energy and is cheap. That includes not only the auto makers, but all the battery makers out there.

Also, to try to get mileage that is barely acceptable requires more than a simple motor and battery. Regenerative braking technology being an example. If you don't recover that energy, then the car isn't going to go nearly as far. And then folks have this funny thing about thinking that a car should have A/C, heat, stereo, etc, basicly the standard feature set that you'd find in similar cars today. And for cars that cost $45K, that's a lot of stuff. No one is going to buy a stripped down, barebones car at even 25K, let alone that price. Then there are the govt mandates, like airbags, crash resistant bumpers, etc.

Take the last part up with Obama.

GROOOOAAAAAANNNNN! Well played, old boy, well played.

I kinda think NY and MA were settled a bit before, though they're still pretty unsettling places to live.

nope we import the stuff directly from the slave labor of china

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:44:49 -0800, Spam?uster

Wow, the little moron knows how to look at a header. Who would have thunk?

wrote:

If there was any oil in it, at least it would have some flavor.

Hell no. He's so far left he wouldn't know what being right is.

I think this is awful. How awful? Tell you ladder.

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Two rungs don't make a route.

They actually did have one, which somehow survived long enough to leave drawings like this that Harry can color in crayon while making motor noises.

Some people are charging their cars by generating their own green energy an d are even taking themselves off the grid. There are some great guides out there on how to do this, some of which are listed on this site www.diyenerg yreview.com if you?re interested?

Today's Brits wouldn't have lasted a day in W.W. II.

Used 90 weight gear oil would be appropriate for that garbage.

I think that he's Dimmie's Limey cousin.

Development work on small steam turbines at Doble led to an American jet engine proposal contemporary with the British, German and Italian efforts, but not as well supported:

Actually..not true. But they are indeed pretty unsettling places to live.

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

Does CNG work in a diesel engine? Or does it require spark plugs?

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie