@samcrut: Do the calculations. Recharging with roof solar cells would take many hours, even at 40% efficiency.

"The car features Mitsubishi Motors' unique in-wheel motors in the front "

Bangles in the flesh are involving, complicated, different, stimulating. Apart from X3 they've all got bits to admire. By comparison, there's nothing to look at on a Camry/Solara/GS430/G6/Altima ("I wonder what plastic shapes they picked for the headlights and tail lights?" doesn't count).

Black BMW M5 on my street. Bangle-haters be damned, it's fluid muscle poetry. There's a M-B CLS nearby, very nice but not much depth to explore. There used to be a previous-gen Cadillac CTS in gold in the neighborhood, the way that most of its planes move past each other is pure gold, especially at the rear side…

@cgates1: What part do you loathe?

@ideaman2020: RTFA:

It's ironic to see car fans who presumably believe mass-produced bits of metal can be ART, turn around and denigrate other artistic activity.

I dunno about those fender lines bulging higher than the hood, then really bulging up as they flow into the A pillars. They look meaty in a bad way.

If you reject THE scientific consensus achieved and refined by climate scientists from every country (including ones that rejected Kyoto) and endorsed by major scientific academies of all major countries as merely "a politically motivated assembly" then sorry bub, you're a denialist.

@clickitysplit: If you RTFA, this electric battery Volt (GM also has a fuel cell version just to confuse things) "uses an on- board engine to generate electricity when the battery runs down during travel"

@Rust-MyEnemy: Hybrids and all-electric recover some energy wasted in braking and don't waste fuel when idling. Hybrids can optimize fuel engine operation. Those are huge wins over ICE despite the weight penalty of the batteries.

@danio3834: Climate scientists have the physics (so basic a high schooler can grasp it), the data, the computer models, and a consensus that has grown more solid in the last 17 years. Spouting nonsense like "The debate still rages on in the scientific community as to WHY it is warming." doesn't make it true, when all…

@killavanilla: Saying "enviro-nuts" and "enviro-wacko movement" while you pretend to want a reasoned debate doesn't compute.

@superbad: It's worse than that. US auto makers got tax money from you and me for the US Advanced Battery Consortium, then the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, then the Freedom CAR (Cooperative Automotive Research). Go and read the starry-eyed newspaper stories from these announcements.

C'mon JCWhitless and smokyburnout, here we obey the laws of physics!

Look at ANGELFAST's posts. Everywhere it's the same mindless comment about the CR-V with a slightly different link to a page on discounthonparts.

It's nice that it barely looks like a SUV from the front, but the weird sagging beltline looks like BMW flame surfacing that stopped half-way down, and interlopernailed its Tribeca rear.

The features on cars101 look promising. VDC, heated windscreen, audio jack, maybe a leather interior... all stuff I miss on my Outback Sport. Shame it's bigger and uglier and I think worse mileage.

Wow after the 1018 hp CCXR the Swedes are pimping a Caliber!

@smokyburnout: With a handle like "smokyburnout" I'm not sure why I bother, but "Ambient air pollution has important and diverse health effects, and infants and children are among the most susceptible. Currently, levels of ozone and particulates remain unhealthful in many parts of the United States" ( [pediatrics.aappu…