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Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon
shupp writes "The NY Times (free reg. required) reports in that some folks are not content with the no-plug-in rule that both Honda and Toyota endorse. By modifying a Prius so that it can be plugged in, Ron Gremban of CalCars states 'I've gotten anywhere from 65 to over 100 miles per gallon'. The article also reports that 'EnergyCS, a small company that has collaborated with CalCars, has modified another Prius with more sophisticated batteries; they claim their Prius gets up to 180 mpg, and can travel more than 30 miles on battery power.'"
How much is 65 to 100 miles per gallon in miles per litre?
Ok, so, it works something like this.
1) You plug your car into the house.
2) Your house gets electricty from "somewhere."
3) That somewhere is a diesel fired power plant.
Knowing that energy isn't going to be 100% perfectly conserved, how is this any more environmentally friendly? It seems mandatory according to the fact that energy will be lost as heat at every stage of this that an electric car is less environmentally friendly than a gasoline car, unless powered by an environmentally-friendly power plant.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the quintessential American: Loud, aggressive, and self-satisfied without any reason to be.
At this rate, China might as well start burning its own citizens for fuel instead and save the bother of sending the miners underground to die.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...that gets 100+ miles to the gallon. Sure, there are the arguments that if everyone drove tanks we'd still have problems - just that I'd rather have the fuel efficiency on something a bit closer to a normal size car. The task might take a while, but I wont mind having a large enough car on the road that wont get completely crushed by an errant 18-wheeler. Something along the lines of those two links in size, just favorably smaller than the first one.
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