Gas prices...wtf

[bisonmike2]

And what's the deal with airline food?

[North Side]

I'm just glad winter is over so my MPG is back over 40.

Yeah, I drive a Prius. Wanna fight about it? I know Tatanka's got my back.

thats about the only good thing that will come out higher gas prices, people will start to get for fuel effiecent cars. Its already happening everyone has these smaller mid sized SUVs (cross overs?) I am all for moving over to electric cars. If I had the money I would get a volt. they look sweet.

[TbonZach]

And what's the deal with airline food?

Who aaaare these people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS_oc_zlt48

[Hammersmith]

thats about the only good thing that will come out higher gas prices, people will start to get for fuel effiecent cars. Its already happening everyone has these smaller mid sized SUVs (cross overs?) I am all for moving over to electric cars. If I had the money I would get a volt. they look sweet.

Like the location of the gauge cluster(biggest peeve of the Prius). Don't like the rear bucket seats, high lip of the hatchback, or the styling/function of the center console(radio/climate/nav). I always suspected I would like a station wagon or a hatchback, but I never knew how much until I finally owned one. The cargo section of the Volt would drive me nuts.

[TheBisonator]

Like the location of the gauge cluster(biggest peeve of the Prius). Don't like the rear bucket seats, high lip of the hatchback, or the styling/function of the center console(radio/climate/nav). I always suspected I would like a station wagon or a hatchback, but I never knew how much until I finally owned one. The cargo section of the Volt would drive me nuts.

GE is now making something called a WattStation, something that you can plug in and recarge any electric car into. But the issue still lies with the auto manufacturers themselves, and if they can build a car that doesn't rely on a single drop of gasoline.

[bisonaudit]

GE is now making something called a WattStation, something that you can plug in and recarge any electric car into. But the issue still lies with the auto manufacturers themselves, and if they can build a car that doesn't rely on a single drop of gasoline.

Marketing genius. These WattStations have existed in ND hotel parking lots for decades.

I don't think we're that far away from a 300 mile battery. The issue is going to be cost. Right now the business model is for the consumer to purchase the battery with the car at a substantial premium to an internal combustion engine after which their per mile cost will be quite low relative to gasoline. But the premium to get into the car is a big barrier to adoption.

There are some players out there who are working on a model where you buy the chassis for a price competitive with in internal combustion engine and then you'd "purchase miles" by driving through a car wash type of battery changing station which would replace your spent battery with a fully charged one in under 2 minutes. Their demoing in Israel w/ Nissan right now.

[Twentysix]

I'm just glad winter is over so my MPG is back over 40.

Yeah, I drive a Prius. Wanna fight about it? I know Tatanka's got my back.

We found your red prius, it was trying to vote for Ralph Nader.

[BisonNolesFan77]

Can't complain too much with my 21 MPG 2500HD pickup...even if my "Fuel" is a tad bit more expensive than gas.

[duluthbison]

Marketing genius. These WattStations have existed in ND hotel parking lots for decades.

I don't think we're that far away from a 300 mile battery. The issue is going to be cost. Right now the business model is for the consumer to purchase the battery with the car at a substantial premium to an internal combustion engine after which their per mile cost will be quite low relative to gasoline. But the premium to get into the car is a big barrier to adoption.

There are some players out there who are working on a model where you buy the chassis for a price competitive with in internal combustion engine and then you'd "purchase miles" by driving through a car wash type of battery changing station which would replace your spent battery with a fully charged on in under 2 minutes. Their demoing in Israel w/ Nissan right now.

That's a very interesting concept right now. I've always wondered how electric cars would catch on if their re-charge times were hours. This would make things much more practical for the average consumer because it wouldn't be much different from filling your tank with gas. Only problem is that they would have to have tons of these things laying around.

Then that leads to the possible environmental questions relating to the toxic chemicals in these things.

[BigBison]

Can't complain too much with my 21 MPG 2500HD pickup...even if my "Fuel" is a tad bit more expensive than gas.

Thats one thing that the feds really screwed up, is diesels. Europe has many super high mileage diesel cars that get equal or higher mpgs than a Prius. But with the feds mandating ultra-low sulfur fuel and all the emissions crap that they now have to put on these engines its made no hope for diesels. We could have small diesel truck engines that get 25+ mpgs in a truck or SUV and have good towing power, but instead were wasting time with Hybrids in trucks.