It's nice to see Tesla getting customers for their battery tech, USA! USA! But the current RAV4 weighs 3440 lbs. It's going to take more battery to make it go which means more weight which means even more battery (or less range). Tesla makes a stupendous 53 kW·h 992 lb expensive battery pack for their Roadster and…
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@fratto: The Volt excels for people with a 40 mile commute, by the time you're regularly driving 100 miles it's an expensive hybrid. Meanwhile the Leaf is a non-starter for anyone regularly driving 100 miles or more unless it's their second car.
@HammerheadFistpunch: There are a bunch of RAV4 EVs still on the road, there was one with motor trouble grinding around my neighborhood and there are two parked at a realtor in downton Davis California.
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The flip side of the biggest carnivore on land.
Polar bears will not be able to hunt seals from pack ice if there's no pack ice. They can't catch them while swimming. They really are likely to suffer from the undeniable reduction in arctic ice cover.
@outdoorplaces: Nissan is building Leaf assembly plants in Tennesee and UK, each with a nearby battery plant. They will have combined production capability of 500,000 cars a year by 2012, about 5x more than everyone else's toe in the electric waters put together. Nissan also plans production battery-electric…
@DennyCraneDennyCraneDennyCrane: You seem to be deliberately confusing the nearly meaningless terms "green" and "totally green" with the claim "greener".
@RB26Skyline: Duh, everything manufactured has an environmental cost, but some things do better than others on lifecycle analysis. You said something that's blatantly untrue ("ridiculously power intensive manufacturing process"), be less douchy and admit it.
@corporateoppressor: Oh yeah, the lame excuse of those shown to be wrong: "people can edit Wikipedia to prove their position". You can always click those little "[42]" footnotes in the article that link to the citation that supports the assertion. You can also use the View history link and go back a week or a…
@harrnack: By installing solar panels on your house! Duh.
@ElementalDragon: You're not making any sense. The car sure as hell is powered by solar if you install solar panels, which presumably is what those owners are claiming.
@Nürburgring: Varsity Jalop: especially when you consider that transporting all the nickel and materials halfway across the world does more damage than the 40-50mpg you save.
@barrywoods: NiMH and Li-on batteries aren't particularly toxic. Your car contains a lead-ACID battery that is. And the steel and chrome in your car contains nickel.
@angusparvo2: No need to parade your ignorance in public, when there's [en.wikipedia.org] .
What is in the page 2 second picture photograph? That carbon fiber brings tears to my eyes. Nobody on Savile Row handles woven fabric that well. Mind-boggling quality!