The flush headlamps (and extra 6" length) of that fourth-gen Civic allowed for a smoother design, but I'm still partial to the original "long deck" design, the 1984-1988 Civic hatchback. The 1500S model is the finest use of two-tone paint, and it has insane packaging efficiency in 12.5 feet.

Horacio Pagani also designs dentists' equipment. My dentist has a full "Squalo (apparecchiature dentali)" setup. The leather reclining chair with built-in catheter, the forged brass and milled aluminum jaw retractors, the ungodly whine of the 45,000 rpm drill reverberating through the ductwork of the carbon fiber…

I'm wrong, if you hoon it the Volt may call on its gas engine even below 70mph. GM's misleading campaign that it's an electric car with a range-extender continues to confuse! [gm-volt.com] says 'So it turns out the engine can contribute motive force to the Volt even at speeds from 30 to 70 mph presumably when the…

You and everyone else assuming he must be hypermiling are mistaken. If you drive a Volt a short distance before plugging back in, you can drive aggressively and floor the accelerator and still use no gasoline. The Volt doesn't use gasoline until its battery runs out or you drive over 70mph. (And I see a lot of…

They already make normal-looking hybrids that drivers like: as @Maymar suggests, take the Ford Fusion Hybrid (39 combined mpg). But if you care more about efficiency and engineering than looks, you don't use a sedan or wagon shape. The Honda Insight (old and new) and the Prius have far better aerodynamics, 0.26 CDa…

I did the math elsewhere in reply to @strays2k. Based off the Volt's EPA sticker, 1500 all-electric miles costs you a mere 60 bucks if you pay 11 cents/kW·h. Plugging in is cheap: the Volt's all-electric "fuel" costs 4 cents/mile. For comparison, the Leaf costs 3.75 cents/mile; it's slightly more efficient at 34…

Your point is valid, though you mean kilowatt hours (kW·h) for the energy used; kW is a measure of power. In order to prolong its battery pack the Volt does not use all of its battery capacity to travel 35 miles (the Leaf discharges more but uses a different lithium chemistry). So the EPA says Volt uses 10.9 kW·h to…

And how do you think gasoline is made? It's dirty, polluting as hell, has to be refined in polluting refineries, then shipped, and I've yet to see a massive lithium spill killing off wildlife. Nickel mining is no picnic, but you have to be math-illiterate and utterly lacking in common sense to think that making a…

Let's do the math. 1554 miles on 1/2 gallon gasoline, so round it down to 1500 miles powered by electricity alone. Then just go read the EPA sticker, it tells you: when running all-electric (for the first ~35 miles), the car consumes 36 kilowatt hours per 100 miles. So 540 kW·h. The cost of that electricity depends…

Ford Escape Hybrid AWD (29 combined mpg /30 city / 27 highway), or the regular ICE Escape AWD (23 combined /20 city / 27 highway).

Hell, the new Jetta TDI has a lower emissions rating than a Prius...and gets better gas mileage and is far larger.

Hybrid tech like the Prius has proven faulty

English Wikipedia has 3.7M articles. Growth is not an issue, quality is. It's great that Wikimedia is trying things out, this thing is just a rough indicator. If it goes wrong they'll pull it. Your article would be more helpful if you linked to the WP pages discussing this, like [www.mediawiki.org] , and it doesn't…

Welcome to the confused echo chamber of the Internet where initial truthiness gets garbled and exaggerated by mindless reposting. What does "faced down other tuners" mean? What exact record was broken? It sure sounds great if you don't pay attention.

The Karma has predictably run late but supposedly the first 6 or 7 production cars for customers are finally really truly actually supposed to come to the USA in July, and production is supposed to rise to 300 a week in November. [www.autocar.co.uk] We'll see.

the Fisker will be engineered to run out of electricity before it hits its top speed for "safety" reasons. 0-160-coasting cause out of power in 20 seconds!

As of today Tesla is valued at $2.95bn (!). Buying Tesla gets you the Roadster (production winding down), the upcoming Model S and its factory, and early design work for the Model X CUV and the far-off Blue Star. That's a lot of money for 1 and 2/3 low-volume car lines. You also get Tesla's motor, motor control…

Look at the F1's cab-forward greenhouse meeting the hood and fenders, the clean rear, the absence of ugly-ass scoops, the central air snorkel behind the unique central driver's seat. It is beauty arising from intense engineering. Then look at the generic MP12-4C.

Ten years after Toyota sold 328 of the original RAV4 EV. There's a bunch of them still buzzing around California, including this pair. Owners I've talked to seem happy, the biggest hassle is the obsolete induction paddle charger that Toyota/GM/CARB settled on and then discontinued in favor of a plug with beefy pins.

Why did you link to 2010's announcement of the partnership? This agreement isn't on Tesla's site yet, but it has been filed with the SEC's Edgar system, e.g. [biz.yahoo.com] #corrections