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- NuneTravels, on 12/30/2008, -0/+9Bizarre! Interesting read, thanks.
- shakeysugarpimp, on 12/30/2008, -0/+9#3 looks like a hamster
- allemande, on 12/31/2008, -0/+4Walking?
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+4The "green" car isn't going to save anything until it gets down to a reasonable price.
starting under 13000k. hybrids are like all 25k and up. and not even then until they start filtering into the used market and older cars slowly find their way to recycle companies. I don't see the average 30k a year earner (and that is a very large amount of people in the US) dashing to dealerships to drop 25k on a prius when they could get a yaris for 14k and use the 11k they saved to buy gasoline for the next 8 years.
It will continue to be a fantasy until it becomes affordable for most. so all you people that want it to happen, start flooding the used market with hybrids.
- Demos27, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3Ethanol isn't any better, Hydrogen is too expensive and needs much more development and solar power is impossible. So what do you suggest?
- inactive, on 12/30/2008, -0/+3haha, nice.
- hasslinthehoff, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3Not to rain on your parade, but there's no mention of public transportation... having a ton of green cars still means that your paving every square inch of the Earth to make way for a pile of cars and eroding forests and habitats as a result. No trees means that there's less oxygen and green cars won't mean jack if you can't breathe.
- Epik, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3Fisker's car designs are niiice.
- toekneebullard, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2So you're saying you're a wuss?
If you let your life become to easy, you get soft.
/doing my damnedest to bike through the winter. - libertymeister, on 12/31/2008, -1/+3Messiah Gore has been replaced with Savior AND Messiah Obama. Pfeh.
If the government would get out of the way, you'd see a LOT more people inventing and adopting such technologies. Detroit should have been allowed to fail. - vizeroth, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Car prices in general are too high right now, and most people can't afford new cars (even if they can get a loan for one, they probably can't afford it, though that doesn't stop people from buying them).
The real issue isn't necessarily a car like a Prius ('09 starts at $22K), but looking at, for instance, the Civic Hybrid, which starts at $8K more than the base Civic. 26/34 vs. 40/45 is certainly an impressive improvement for a car that in earlier model years was noted for not giving a significant boost in fuel efficiency (since Honda's early Hybrids reportedly were improving performance rather than efficiency), but does someone really want to spend the extra $8K when 26/34 is already better than driving an SUV back and forth to work? - ThadeousMan, on 12/30/2008, -2/+4Shouldn't all the "green" cars be green?
- DaDrake, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2If I thought mankind was moving towards a global catastrophe as the messiah Al Gore has foreshadowed .... I still wouldn't ***** drive #3 or #4. Seriously... what happens if a toddler hits you in one of their fisher-price playground carts...... you could be killed.
- FrankTheTank17, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Is there supposed to be a point to the picture under "6) MUSCLE CARS GO GREEN"? Usually, the last thing I think of when I hear muscle car is a Toyota SUV side by side with a bicycle...
- alvarezg, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Without a hefty fuel tax, the morons will (already have) start(ed) to buy SUVs again.
Hybrids are a dead end solution; they are too complex and use too many resources.
Battery vehicles, without a spectacular breakthrough, will remain urban only.
It's time to put the burden on industry; consumer vehicles are well past the point of diminishing returns.
Build nukes & electrify railroads
Diesel and improved high-efficiency IC engines are the best we can hope for.
Mass transit is cleaner than individual transportation. Put the fuel taxes to work on a door-to-door transportation system
Promote telecommuting - Demos27, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Yeah let's just keep waiting and see what good that will do us.
- Demos27, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2I don't think it's that big of an issue...I don't see roadways running through my backyard and I don't see roadway covered mountains either.
- greensire, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1but still, you gotta admit, those are interesting trends. I don't think I ever thought that so many green sports cars would show up this year....
- jhonsingh, on 05/06/2009, -0/+1wow, Good pics, good collection
Nitin
http://www.alianzatransportation.com/ - toekneebullard, on 12/31/2008, -1/+2I think the bigger issue is sustainability of Hybrid cars. We've dug ourselves into a deep whole with gas, how long until we're paying too much for lithium ion batteries for the hybrids? And where do those batteries go when they die? Imagine if all 62 million cars in the US plugged into the power grid every night, where's that power coming from?
Hybrids seem VERY shortsighted to me. - inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1That BMW was sexy.
- bluemonnggee, on 12/31/2008, -2/+3the article was a little car heavy
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1I have to admit, they do need to come down in price to get me off the bus and into my own car.
- rolf, on 12/31/2008, -1/+2Now is not a good time for green cars. In the 1980s, Americans forgot the oil crisis as soon as it disappeared. SUV sales are already up despite the economy.
Yes, gas will get more expensive. But people seem to live for today. $1.60 gas is the worst thing that could have happened to many innovative companies like Aptera. - toekneebullard, on 01/06/2009, -0/+1That's the issue, I don't have any suggestions, well, except for bikes, but that doesn't work in a lot of situations (that would require A LOT of infrastructure change). I'm just concerned that we're rushing into new technologies again, without looking at things with their true long term effects.
- jackabilly, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1it goes beyond just mileage. if 2 people commute in a suburban, you're already getting mileage equal to 1 person in an accord. people need to alter the way they live. we don't need to wait for car companies to invent the perfect vehicle.
- c001, on 12/31/2008, -2/+2The 4th one looks like an UFO.. Aliens on the road..
- nmanguy, on 12/31/2008, -2/+2When it's raining and 20 degree's outside, there's definitely no way I'll ride my bike. When it's humid and 100 degrees outside, there's definitely no way I'll ride my bike.
- xabstract, on 12/31/2008, -4/+2don't forget about the 2 geeks biking across America to push more geeks to bike to work. There is your trend for 2009. www.realgeeksride.com
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