@mytdawg: Calling a car that has entered production and is in the hands of road testers "vaporware" is a bizarre perversion of English. Please stop.

@sixtwo:

@Drew Magary took away your star 14:22 PM:

@t('-'t): Yes but your two sentences are only weakly connected. A plug-in "typical hybrid" can also allow XX% of Americans to make their daily commute gas-free. The car just has to have enough power and top speed in electric-only mode to travel YY miles. Toyota's plug-in hybrid Prius can go to 62 mph all-electric.…

@Bumblebee: You're right people don't understand, but you're just confusing things further with your term "pure plug-in"!

@BLeyland: Nope, BMW Megacity is a pure-electric city vehicle built around a carbon fiber tub.

@bboothy: The gaps in the body are a key part of the design, the panels float away from the shell! That's what makes it so novel and beautiful, though Citroen and Mazda have made similar concepts.

@smokyburnout: Turbo yes, six cylinder no. Back in 2009, Jalopnik wrote "The BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept is a full [plug-in] hybrid powered by a three-cylinder turbodiesel connected to a pair of electric motors pumping out 265 HP and 590 lb-ft of torque".

@VoltCruelerz: I commented elsewhere that DBpedia already "learned" Wikipedia, it extracts facts from Wikipedia categories and templates to come up with the same "Peyton Manning is a football player and his current team is the Indianapolis Colts" that NELL has to arrive at by reading lots of text.

Sounds much like Doug Lenat's Cyc project, going since 1984, trying to learn concepts. It was inspiring when I first heard about it, because once it can read the paper ("the paper" is a dead tree printing mechanism that was common at the time) it would get smarter and smarter faster and faster, and enslave us all.

The Coda sedan battery electric vehicle is pretty close to this, based on the Chinese market Haifeng Saibo.

@elchimpo: New sentences start with a capital letter, thus making paragraphs easier to read! Don't be lazy in public.

I think Rolls Royce paid the pilot to make that aerial homage to the Spirit of Ecstasy. Jolly good show.

@compOsvt: But it doesn't work well in enclosed spaces and surrounded by pedestrians.

@Bubs: I think you can get the Escalade hybrid without the gaudy graphics.

@jodark: Relax, the batteries will all get recycled eventually, nickel is worth something. And the nasty chemicals are in lead-ACID batteries, not NiMH or Li-on

@whoosh: Almost all packs are working (they might crack), so they could repurpose them as stationary battery storage. I'm not sure how robust that market is. Or GM could rebuild them into newer safer packs.

@Rob Shortley: Heh, for my first car I got to decide between a Fiat Strada and the VW Rabbit. Both absolute crap, desperately unreliable cars that in Fiat's case drove them out of the USA, and in VW's case torpedoed their plans to take over a second Chrysler plant.

@Owned Wolf: No it hasn't been proven. You're wrong. See stopcrazypp's reply elsewhere.

@handbrake: Your Honda FCX is a Volt, with: