Yes cars with 30 pin connectors... as someone who has a car that came with only a apple 30 pin connector and who owns an Android phone I sure wish it wasn't a proprietary standard. I understand that there wasn't a competing standard at the time, and that they wanted to drive sales of apple products but as a consumer who chose not to buy an apple product I am definitely annoyed. There just aren't any products up here in Canada that you can use to plug your android phone into a 30 pin connector. I know I could blame the car manufacturer for choosing a proprietary standard but honestly what else could they do without a competing standard? Why isn't there one after all this time?
I have a few friends with laptops and the stickers are literally the ONLY way they can tell what kind of computer it is. Other than who makes it (because you can't remove the Dell or Acer or whatever logo) they have zero idea how much RAM, what kind of processor, how big hard drive etc. it has except for the stickers the manufacturer puts there.
Its so much easier asking idiots to "Read the stickers" then it is to get them to even right-click on the Computer button in Windows and go to Properties.
I used the Toyota Corolla (regular, non-hybrid vehicle) as my comparison, since it's popular and similar in style. According to Toyota's website, it gets 26 miles per gallon in the city and starts at $15,350.
..[various assumptions]..
if you assume $4 per gallon, then you'd need to drive around 177,000 miles to break even.
Using less gas is only partly motivated by price, things like this completely ignore two other major factors:
1. Emissions - even considering the emissions from the power plant that generated the electricity for a plug-in charge this car's emissions are massively lower than any normal ICE powered car.
2. That gas you are otherwise burning comes from somewhere, and getting it from there to here is costly in many ways that have nothing to do with money.
Although this car does make more economic sense in places like Canada (or most of the planet) where gas is much more expensive, the cost is only a part of the issue.
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Yes cars with 30 pin connectors ... as someone who has a car that came with only a apple 30 pin connector and who owns an Android phone I sure wish it wasn't a proprietary standard. I understand that there wasn't a competing standard at the time, and that they wanted to drive sales of apple products but as a consumer who chose not to buy an apple product I am definitely annoyed. There just aren't any products up here in Canada that you can use to plug your android phone into a 30 pin connector. I know I could blame the car manufacturer for choosing a proprietary standard but honestly what else could they do without a competing standard? Why isn't there one after all this time?
I have a few friends with laptops and the stickers are literally the ONLY way they can tell what kind of computer it is. Other than who makes it (because you can't remove the Dell or Acer or whatever logo) they have zero idea how much RAM, what kind of processor, how big hard drive etc. it has except for the stickers the manufacturer puts there. Its so much easier asking idiots to "Read the stickers" then it is to get them to even right-click on the Computer button in Windows and go to Properties.
From The Atlantic: GM's Volt Offers Amazing Mileage, But At What Cost?
Using less gas is only partly motivated by price, things like this completely ignore two other major factors:
1. Emissions - even considering the emissions from the power plant that generated the electricity for a plug-in charge this car's emissions are massively lower than any normal ICE powered car.
2. That gas you are otherwise burning comes from somewhere, and getting it from there to here is costly in many ways that have nothing to do with money.
Although this car does make more economic sense in places like Canada (or most of the planet) where gas is much more expensive, the cost is only a part of the issue.