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Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars
An anonymous reader writes "Toyota just announced that it will invest $50 million in Tesla Motors and the two companies will partner to manufacture electric vehicles to meet California's growing demand for greener cars. Bay Area residents should be especially excited, as this venture is expected to create thousands of new jobs in the San Francisco Bay area, and is sure to be a boon to California's flagging economy. Tesla fans as well should rejoice as the new partnership will allow the EV startup to bring its highly coveted, iconic design to more affordable electric vehicles like the Model S sedan, which will sell for $49,900 and gets 300 miles on a 3- to 5-hour charge."
Top Gear taught me that Hybrids were garbage years ago, and that even a v8(!) jag deisel can get "hybrid mileage" if driven carefully, while a small 4 cylinder turbo deisel will whallop the mileage of a hybrid
It's just that in THIS country, hollywood celebrities drive, and push the merits of, hybrids, so they MUST be right. I mean, celebrities certainly know way more than we peons do.
Well I am sick and tired of hearing your crap. The fumes that come of a modern cars exhaust is less polluted than the air that is going in the engine to burn. Yes, and LA would be a major candidate. Cars and their exhaust DO NOT CAUSE asthma and other respiratory diseases. They can provoke an occurrence but asthma is caused by BAD HYGIENE. true! Electric cars are not and never will be feasible. To take an electric car and bring it to 100km/h takes forever and 2 seconds, and when you get there you are already out of juice. And they are still confused by hills. This will not change even with today's advances in battery research. Toyota has already stated this, but nobody mentioned that in the news. The emissions from cars are not the most appropriate to tackle. The higher the carbon content of the fuel, the more CO2 will be emanated. But sadly for you ecoterrorists, it is not the car but the big bad coal power plants who is doing the mess. 7 Joggers do as much CO2 output as a WV Polo :)
I take my children to see Madonna(..), but I never for once ever thought I was in the same business.Chris Rea.