Hybrid cars

[Lando Griffin]

Fuel cell cars are a long way away.

 

I'll get a hybrid eventually, but my 93 Tempo is doing me fine now.

 

To the person who wondered about what would happen is the bettery went out: I believe for most/all of the hybrids that the battery gets charged when the combustion engine kicks in.

[Guest DrTom]

they were both taken at 6100, it would more like 100 HP for the Hybrid versus 115 HP for the regular Civic.

No. Horsepower readings measure the maximum available horsepower, and specify the RPMs at which it occurs. The hybrid will start losing hp after 5700 RPM. At more conventional RPMs, it probably has something like 60-70 hp, which is fucking sad. The technology has come a long way with these cars, but unless they can give them some ass, I'm going to stick with good ol' gasoline.

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

I think these could definitely have a future in the soccer mom market.

[Rendclaw]

By all rights, we could have had hybrid engines that would be comparable to standard enginges today, if there was any need to do so twenty, even ten years ago. If there was a push to make a viable alternative to the gasoline combustion engine back then, hybrids would be the main alternative, with fuel cells being the main replacement another five to ten years down the road.

 

But because of the situations surrounding oil, which are for the most part political, such development of technology has been delayed by an almost critical amount, because of the middle eastern countries and oil companies dancing this intricate dance of need, greed, supply and demand.

 

Everyone is to blame for this situation, because of the capitalistic idea of planned obsolescence and continuing the cycle of making oil companies and OPEC richer and richer, instead of moving to the next step.