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Modded Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 MPG
artemis67 writes "Politicians and automakers say a car that can both reduce greenhouse gases and free America from its reliance on foreign oil is years or even decades away. Ron Gremban says such a car is parked in his garage. It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret -- a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car's high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel. Gremban, an electrical engineer and committed environmentalist, spent several months and $3,000 tinkering with his car."
TFA talks about cars getting up to 250MPG, this dude has a car that gets around 80. Am I missing something, or do you have to overclock it to 7Ghz to get that kind of mileage?
Build a better car that doesn't guzzle gas, and the oil industry will beat a path to your door, destroy the car, and kill you. Adios, Dude!
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You can make a hummer get better than 80 mpg. Not too far from my house is a hummer that gets better than 80 mpg, but it's also a hybrid.
It's a combination diesel-continental drift vehicle, and they fire it up maybe once in 10000 years.
Of course, if they power it up and use the vehicle to drive down the street, it's back down to 6 mpg.
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I can get 250MPG.
Shift into neutral, and find a 250 mile stretch of downhill....
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Translation: I am insecure and need to compensate with my penis car.
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Even in a, say, a Chrysler Lebaron?
(Would a boat help?)
Cheers,
-b
"Translation: I am insecure and need to compensate with my penis car."
Translation: I'm envious of your ownership of the penis car.
"Derp de derp."
A motorcycle on the other hand is quite different. When you lay a motorcycle on it's side, there's a hundred pounds of human flesh and blood acting as a wear plate, before you scratch the paint on the motorcycle. The human rider is directly exposed to the energy of the impact, a very efficient transfer of energy.
As an extra side bonus, when humans act as wear plates to protect the motorcycle, they are also helping with the culling process, improving the gene pool. I always get a big grin on my face when I see a big dumb biker riding down the road, jeans and a t-shirt, no helmet. Nature will always prevail, the culling process is natural in that scenario. The only real problem these days is the sneaking up of license ages. If they keep letting it sneak up higher, pretty soon, the culling process wont be able to take effect until AFTER those folks have propogated the genes that contain utter stupidity. But I have faith in nature, it'll find another vector around this problem....
All power, whether fossil fuels, solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, or some as-of-yet-undiscovered resource, is really just transferring energy from one place in the universe to another. As long as we use energy, we continue to observe entropy. And as long as that happens, there will be whiners complaining about it.
As a straight male, I find the idea of climbing into an '18-second pussy-mobile' rather more enticing than any kind of 'penis car'....
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
"Translation: I'm envious of your ownership of the penis car."
Translation: I own one of those penis cars.
Flame? That wasn't a flame.
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for my wind powered car pantent to go through.
Basically the idea is you strap on a big windmill to the roof of the car, and as the car moves, electricity is produced, thus moving the car.
The added bonus is that you get free meals from all the birds that get caught up.
Care to sample some Pigeon Pie anyone?
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Since you're sure the entire economy will collapse, you won't mind sending me all of your money, right? I suspect instead of money you have only debt, however, and your hope for a collapsing economy are easily understood.
Don't worry, Peak Oil production comes after Sasquatch goes on tour with Elvis and the Aliens, so you'll have plenty of warning.
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You're in luck buddy, solar panels produce toxic chemical waste in the production process. Just poor that shit into a stream and you're in business.
As far as the over-active sense of entitlement, I think that's the parents who can't stomach the idea of driving a station wagon. Hate to tell ya, folks, but most SUVs these days have 8" ground clearance and soft-ass suspensions and probably can't deal well with potholes. You're not fooling anyone, it's as pathetic as a combover. Embrace the inner soccer mom - after you spit out the 7th puppy, that's what you are.