No one can produce these numbers without making assumptions. Quit yer bitchin', go to fueleconomy.gov, and follow the link that's in EVERY car mpg report, "You may customize these values to reflect the cost of fuel in your area and your own driving patterns", and refine for your own circumstances.

(Comment edit failed?! , sorry). My first sentence is wrong, I meant to say producing a car is about 1000 gallons of gasoline embodied energy, which is 3 tons.

Did you even read the link you provided? It was warm in Europe back in 110AD. Globally, not so clear.

Producing a car represents very roughly a ton of gasoline in embodied energy and associated pollution. The heavier the car, the more pollution. There's a lot of handwaving and crocodile tears over the pollution from making a few hundred pounds of recyclable batteries, but it is dwarfed by the extra pollution from…

It seems the maximum electric power the Leaf's regenerative braking system can produce is 20 kW. I don't know if the limitation is the power management electronics or the motor in generating mode. The Leaf's optional DC fast charge takes place at ~50 kW, so it seems the battery can handle it. In the future drag…

Because the car would be bigger and heavier. Because venting a diesel generator is non-trivial, the noise would be terrible, and you'd have to deal with the safety issues of having a generator mounted in the car somewhere... Because the moment you did so Jalopnik commenters would tear you apart for the terrible mpg…

According to this fine 928 history, the 928 sold 8,000 in its best year and was in production for 18 years while it enjoyed continuing improvements and was regularly hailed in the press as "best" car. That's pretty good for a car was one of the most expensive cars you can buy and cost as much as a Ferrari; it doesn't…

And enjoy Mel Brooks' surprisingly good disco rap song. Supposedly, "He is first caucasian to make a rap song that went gold. Not only that he's is first person over the age of 50 to make a gold hit rap song which still stands today."

Really? Presumably people who can afford it, whose regular commute is less than ~40 miles, and who for a lot of reasons value electric propulsion while burning no gasoline at all for much of their driving. That list of reasons includes quieter operation, low running costs, cool technology, less pollution overall in…

The e-CVT is fundamental to the Voltec design, using a planetary gearset much like Toyota's HSD to allow the gas engine to contribute power to the wheels alongside the electric motor. I doubt a manual will happen.

Anything's possible, but Tesla just completed building all 20 of its Model S "Alpha" cars for braking, handling, and safety testing, and claims the former Nummi plant in Fremont, Calif. "is being prepped for Model S manufacturing with stamping, plastics and paint shops construction underway".

But "Underwriters of the IPO are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank Securities." Despite the supposed change in climate and regulations since the dot-com bubble, there are still strong incentives for their research analysts to hype the companies with whom their investment bankers have a…

In what way is Fisker better run? The Karma fell way behind schedule just as the Roadster did, and Fisker has yet to deliver its first Karma to a paying customer. (Tesla has yet to announce a slip for the Model S, no doubt one is coming.)

You prove my point: you don't know. Claiming that all energy production involves losses therefore it all takes the same amount of energy is ludicrous. In fact oil companies won't say. A PDF summary of the GREET model says it takes 0.24 gallons to make one gallon, but that's an average.

I think if you don't leave your Bluetooth devices in visible state ready for pairing, then the communication between them is mandated to be encrypted (since 2.1) and is fairly secure. I don't think any vulnerabilities have been found for now, unlike for example WEP Wifi. More at [en.wikipedia.org]

Google hired people who are good at hardware, so that Android hardware will improve, so more devices run Android, so that their advertising revenue goes up. Google has done extremely well by ignoring your advice.

@KatHannaford: Unstarring people who call you out for writing unbecoming of a professional journalist seems... unprofessional. Give Almightywhacko his/her/its star back!

Alternative fuels are definitely worthwhile as oil gets harder to produce. But actually plants are an extremely inefficient way of harvesting energy from the sun compared to solar electricity; they're just cheap because mother nature supplies the inputs (soil, water, CO2). And the physics of burning stuff in an engine…

Obviously current EV doesn't work for you (or me, I'm a one car household with regular 200 mile drives to mountains ill-served by public transport). It's good to have more choice in transportation; I dunno why you're getting so worked up about it that you make misleading blanket generalizations and point out stuff…

What's your point? I bet a higher percentage than the percentage of the ICE crowd who understand how gas vehicles function other than "I put in gas". EVs are extremely simple: recharge battery, motor turns. If the point you're trying to make is they don't understand "the big picture" about alleged benefits of…