Slashdot - Modded Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 MPG
From Slashdot today:
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Originally Posted by Slashdot
artemis67 writes
"Politicians and automakers say a car that can both reduce greenhouse gases and free America from its reliance on foreign oil is years or even decades away. Ron Gremban says such a car is parked in his garage. It looks like a typical Toyota Prius hybrid, but in the trunk sits an 80-miles-per-gallon secret -- a stack of 18 brick-sized batteries that boosts the car's high mileage with an extra electrical charge so it can burn even less fuel. Gremban, an electrical engineer and committed environmentalist, spent several months and $3,000 tinkering with his car."
I wonder if this is just another case of getting the energy from another source (as opposed to actually saving any. For example, I've never really seen the major advantage of full-electric cars as they still use the same energy, and often from less-efficient, still-exhaustable sources. So the electricity is made from a coal plant outside of town, then used to charge the batteries... Sounds like they just want to move the pollution out of the cities into the rural areas.
Still, with gas going as high as it is, maybe paying for the electricity is cheaper than the gas, pollution be damned.
Chuck
