@Ben Wojdyla: I suspect the Volt will get so-so mpg in the real world when its battery is depleted. There will be more than one eco icon and "deluded greens" can take the opportunity to think hard about their driving patterns.

@C4_4life: Current Euro efficientDynamics BMW models add stop/start capability and mild regenerative braking. From that it's only a small jump to an actual hybrid. BMW is moving towards hybrids for their larger cars, but you may be right and there won't be any MPG benefit to hybrids over advanced diesel for small and…

@Ben Wojdyla: Now you're just twisting your words again. What did you mean when you added over any other if not a comparison of green-ness?

Calling any car "green" over any other is an exercise in self-delusion

@goatrope: Not quite, rare earth elements are a subset of the heavy metals, and the toxic metals are a larger group.

@KMan13 still wants a Pontiac G8: Kinda tough to have a stick with Hybrid Synergy Drive...

@edreyes: The present-day Hitchhiker's Guide defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes." An edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a…

@vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in:

Besides the unsourced bullshit "the energy required to manufacture a car accounts for as much as 45% of its lifetime energy consumption", Mr. Aiyar is doing the typical lameass rhetorical argument of pretending to propose a solution that will never happen. There was nothing stopping a businessman shipping American…

@astrocramp: You're wrong. All reputable studies (footnotes on page 4 here) show 75-90% of the lifetime energy usage of a car occurs during its operation. If number of drivers and miles driven don't change, the only way to lower the consumption and emissions of the US auto fleet is to replace gas guzzlers with more…

I think it's the most impressive concept cars in years, both for design and engineering. If it's drivable then it's beyond awesome.

AutoblogGreen has the video Part 1 from YouTube, very interesting. I shed a tear in memory of Bangle-era pontification.

@oyumurtaci: Point out one part of this that has any connection with the Bangle legacy (and I admire and occasionally love his work). This is 100% va-va-van Hooydonk era and it's pretty excellent.

@G.O.B.: Come on!: start a second Firefox instance and have it prompt for a separate profile (which can have different privacy settings) using the command-line:

@maximum-sienna: Hybrids have little resale value after 150,000 miles because the battery needs to be replaced

@mr_dude: Here's the Google map of Ahnold's hydrogen highway:

@maximum-sienna: Your ranting is confused.

"Smaller than a Fortwo, funkier than an iQ, more dynamic than a Fiat 500 and arguably more desireable than the lot"

This is actually tiny, those are 16-inch wheels and it is based on the criminally underappreciated Suzuki X-90 chassis. We watched a kid drift-park the convertible version last week.

@wiedzmin: You're wrong on two counts.