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Low Emission Cars Continue to Gain Popularity
Rio writes "A company may soon offer American motorists a new option to save on high gas prices -- vehicles powered by lithium batteries. From the article: 'Just plug in these cars for about five hours or so and you'll get about 300 miles on a single charge.' The vehicles cost about $35,000 or about double what buyers would pay for a gas-powered model." Relatedly acidrain writes to tell us The BBC is reporting that a prototype of the new "Clever car" (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) is starting to make the rounds on European test tracks. The car is one meter wide and less polluting than normal vehicles. It has a top speed of 100 km/h (60mph) and uses a novel tilting chassis to make it safe and maneuverable.
Who's laughin now bitches !? **puts clown nose back on & gets in the car**
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
>It has a top speed of 100 km/h (60mph) I want to save money on gas, but not at the expense of doubling the time it takes to drive home.
Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport
Is that part of the name or an instruction for fellow drivers on what to do to a low-emissions vehicle?
"Forget the engineers." -Carly Fiorina, briber of MIT Technology Review.
It must have been designed by NASA. I see stuff like this all the time in their specs for craft to be sent to Mars.
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I'd be terrified of being smushed by a truck while driving one.
Which is why every American feels the need to own a car that's bigger than the median car on the road. I say seatbelts should be forbidden on SUVs, while Hummer-type vehicles should be required to have a blade coming out of the steering wheel. Now, *that* would even the chance in case of a crash.
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To do my part in saving the Earth, I will replace my current vehicle with an electric or hybrid car, because they grow naturally from sunflower fields. I know they grow in sunflower fields because if they didn't, the energy saved by the increase in MPG wouldn't be enough to compensate for the energy used to create these heavy industrial products. If so, I would feel bad, and I don't want to feel bad, and I want to feel good when I buy things.
Your hybrid is not saving the environment. Its purpose is to make you feel good about buying something.
You get yourself a backup diesel generator.
new "Clever car" (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport)
Sure, but it's not such a clevut acronym.
Why bother with either really? Motorcycles can get 45 or so miles per gallon and they are safe provided:
So, you're saying motorcycles are safe provided their riders never make mistakes and provided that all other drivers on the road start behaving sensibly. Well, neither is gonna happen, which means that motorcycles remain risky.
Munich for breakfast, Tokyo for lunch, NYC for dinner.
You're... Godzilla?
Whilst driving to Guildford from Kingston yesterday morning, on the A3, I was being tailed by a large people carrier with a "lady" holding a mobile (cell) phone to her ear. I indicated that I had seen her vehicular faux pax in the usual way (pretended to hold a phone to my ear, etc).
She pulled up along side me and wound down her window to harange me whilst we were both driving along in heavy traffic at 30 or 40 MPH. Apparently, it's none of my "f***ing" business what the numb-nuts in the vehicle behind is doing and I should, apparently, mind my own "f***ing" business (now you know why I put "lady" in quotes!).
It was at this point that I noticed the small and frightened looking, girl in the front passenger seat.
With people like this on the road I think I'll stick to cars thanks very much!
Interestingly, there was just the psycho-mom and the small girl in the 7 seater people carrier too ... so, two stereotypes for the price of one! Best value on the A3 today! Get 'em while they're hot, they're lovely!
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Headlight off, headlight on, dark coloured clothes, light coloured clothes the cars drivers just don't see you.
You're right. Even after adding loud pipes and bright paint to the list.
That's why I resorted to hanging carnival lights all around my bike and playing loud circus music from PA horns mounted on the handlebars (think trombones and sousaphones). If that don't get their attention, I'll probably have to resort to putting on the clown suit next.....
The shoes make shifting difficult.