There is no Chevy Suburban hybrid. The Chevy Tahoe models get the same mpg as the Escalade according to fueleconomy.gov: AWD: 15 mpg, Hybrid AWD: 21 mpg

Regurgitating stuff you've heard doesn't make it true. Making and shipping 20 pounds of recyclable nickel in a 100-lb battery pack is worse than some of the other stuff in a car, but that's just 4% of the material. Besides there is plenty of nickel in the chrome and steel of conventional cars.

"Burning gasoline tanker escape" HAS to be a mini-game in Grand Theft Auto IV: San Andreas. Special bonus points if you jump out, commandeer a fire truck, douse the flames before the cab incinerates, then jump back in and keep burnin'.

I'm pretty sure Ford get the e-CVTs in the Fusion and Escape hybrids from Aisin, part of Toyota's keiretsu. Jatco seems to make mechanical (belt) e-CVTs; their web site mentions only one hybrid transmission and it's nothing like the 2-motor e-CVT that Toyota and Ford's hybrids use.

I don't think Patrick Michaels is a contributor to IPCC, though he was one of ~450 reviewers of AR4 Working Group 3 "mitigation options for the main economic sectors in the near-term". (Which by the way disproves the myth that the IPCC is a clique of same-thinking communist scientists controlled by Al Gore.)

Maybe you can't make sense of a 4-seater sedan that you "refuel" at home cheaply to travel ~35 miles without burning any gas and then keeps going like a conventional car, but others can.

A colossal douche that can bring us PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity in 12 years is a huge net win for society. Armchair whiners... not so much.

Who Killed The Electric Car focused on the enthusiasts who loved their cars and were sad to see them crushed (sounds pure Jalopnik to me). In answering its title it seemed fairly even-handed in blaming many groups for the failure: consumers, batteries, oil companies, car companies, US government, California Air…

This isn't quite a production slip since the article says start of production is still scheduled for March 21 (only 5 days away). But it sounds like the "70 to 100 test cars to be built during 2010" that Fisker forecast back in March 2010 have moved to April-June. Making a car is hard, making your first car is…

You have 52% more #WINNING than the "Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Stirling Moss GTR, RennTech PKG2 Signature edition" from 2008, but the latter may actually exist: [jalopnik.com]

"iSaturn. A Different Kind of Company, A Different Kind of Car"

Google coughed up this old guide from 2009. Hexxeh announced in March 2011 that his Vanilla nightly builds produce VirtualBox and VMWare images as well as the USB image, so it's a lot easier to try it out now.

3:00 "Anyone who has to demand respect automatically deserves ridicule" So true! yay for the First Amendment. But then Muslims threaten to kill you. In Pakistan, you don't only die by law for making fun of Mohammed, you get killed for talking about changing that law.

1. Exactly how much money did you spend getting helped by Scientology?

"The Market", as in Facebook, Gawker, Twitter, Google/Google Docs/Google Maps have figured it out. Please name some massively popular web sites built around "what flash can do now", because I surf the web on my Android phone and rarely come across the box with an arrow to activate Flash.

ActionScript 3 has some nice classical object-oriented features, but JavaScript's object prototyping lets you do equivalent things, and the community developing advanced programming concepts and libraries in and for JavaScript is vast.

I dunno who or what you're disagreeing with, we both love this design!

It sounds like you meant to say "won't replace most gasoline cars" instead of "aren't viable". A lot of people live in cities, others with an under 70 mile commute live in a the suburbs in a multi-car household . Meanwhile CHAdeMO claims there are 559 DC fast chargers in Japan that make longer-distance…

The rear looks a lot more complicated than the show car and the front wheels don't have the huge cuts behind them, but it's phenomenal how close this prototype is to the concept. Adrian van Hooydonk-eykong!