That’s illegal in many places.

The Volt actually runs the engine in a “maintenance mode” every now and then to cycle some gas through it. I would have to imagine Toyota has come up with a similar process.

The parking lines have been photoshopped in after the car was parked.

The lines around the stall are blue. Are we sure it’s not a handicap stall?

The car in the picture is parked within the confines of the parking space; are you sure it’s a BMW?

I think it’s pretty hard for BMW to compete with Tesla using a plug-in hybrid; lots of the appeal of the Teslas to a lot of people is that it’s fully 100% electric. With this thing that’s not the case, and might attract a slightly different crowd.

Seriously? Then you haven’t been paying attention. This is from earlier this week. http://bgr.com/2016/02/29/tes…

I’m an mechanical engineer with 31 us patents and another 50 or so international and that in no way qualifies you or me to argue climate science which is not our specialty. In my opinion (and I have a lot of electrical design experience and experience with internal combustion) point to point efficiency wise electric…

That’s because you’re editing your posts and that wasn’t even there when I responded to you... Your article concluded that the overall efficiency of the average powerplant in the US in the 90s, including transmission line losses, was 36% which is 15% higher than the average gas engine. The average efficiency of power…

Gas-powered cars are only as “clean” as their primary source of energy, which is always oil. With EVs, the worst you can do is 100% coal, which is still cleaner and more efficient than gas-powered cars, but also has the option of being powered from natural gas, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro-electric.

This is true, but the ICE in your car is much less efficient and has much less emissions control tech than a fossil fuel fired power plant. Electric cars are still big winners emissions wise even when you consider the source of their electricity.

This isn’t really true: why? The majority of people will recharge at home. Also, gas stations aren’t cheap. Hypothetical costs are in the range of 300k, and that’s not where land value is cheap. Cost estimates of supercharging stations put them in the 150-250k neighborhood.

Eastern Colorado, Kansas, and much of the center of the country has no country to see. I’ve driven between Denver and Dallas more times than I can count, and I would have killed to have autopilot for the 14 hours of emptiness that is West Texas. I like driving too, but plenty of road trips are full of unbearable…

The Model S is quite fast and has a low center of gravity, so it also handles well.

We don’t hear much about commercial applications for fuel-cell. Not as much PR to be made. I would love for big rigs to switch to electricity (by the way, you call BEVs “electrics”. Fuel-cell vehicles are also electrics. Don’t mind me, am just being a touch pedantic).

“hydrogen can be produced “greenly”

I see the headline, but the volume that Honda plans doesn’t support that claim.

Care to elaborate on where you’re getting your Hydrogen and how it, in any way, can hold a candle to electric vehicles in a well—>wheel sense?

I guess I was more confused by the comment about how electricity is made. Most of the electricity for hybrids is made from recovering kinetic energy, which is much better than just using the kinetic energy to heat up the brake pads and discs. Plug-in hybrids are the minority by far. Did you mean to say “electric…

Care to elaborate? I’m curious as to what you’re referring.