The batteries aren't disposed of. If they're at say 50% of original capacity they may yet be useful as a stationary backup battery, otherwise they're recycled for the valuable metals, just as lead- acid batteries are recycled.

Corbin Motors went bankrupt in 2003, it's now the Myers Motors NmG. Goldmember loves his.

True, one advantage of this (and the Audi Urban Concept) is you're fully enclosed.

I agree with most of what you wrote. GM could have said "world's first plug-in hybrid", instead their crappy marketers played around with Range-Extended Electric, E-REV, "more than electric", "it's electric-drive only" (then we discovered that, appropriately, the engine can also drive the wheels), etc.

Wasting away in Margaritaville,

You really believe the thoroughly discredited CNW Marketing report about Prius vs. Hummer? Whatever.

When Subaru came out with the Outback models of the Legacy and Impreza 5-doors with slightly higher ground clearance, they got rid of the Impreza name and just called the latter the "Outback Sport" in the USA. I think they were always embarrassed by the Japanese-sounding name and wanted to promote a whole line of…

In the proposed Audi and Mazda hybrid designs, the rotary does take a back seat, revving at some fixed, most efficient speed to recharge or supplement the battery.

@6th , @freelunch ,

Yes please, I'd love to see those pictures. Unlike lead-ACID batteries, neither NiMH nor Li-on is toxic, so it's not illegal to dump them. But 20 lbs of nickel is worth good money, so it's very hard to imagine someone plowing them into landfills now that Toxco and Umicore claim to have set up recycling facilities and…

These people don't even know why they're looting or rioting

You seem to be lecturing someone else. I'm pointing out the simple truth that someone driving a fuel-efficient car is burning tons less fuel than a regular car, here's the math. I agree it's only part of someone's ecological footprint, I'm sorry your jerk friends acted like it's a free pass to be wasteful in other…

Prius (car that was trendy 4 years ago) ≠ electric car (car that's barely arrived on the market), so like Charing Ball it's hard to follow your meanderings. Name a more advanced drivetrain than Toyota's HSD e-CVT. The fuel savings are facts that translate fairly directly into real environmental benefits over the life…

Way to stereotype over a million drivers of a vehicle that stopped being trendy four years ago. If you can afford ~$25,000 for a new car and you don't care how it drives, why wouldn't you buy a practical dull midsize Prius hatchback that's also the most aerodynamic, fuel-efficient, reliable (according to Consumer…

@Charing Ball, Environmental-safe automobile

Sudbury was an environmental wasteland, it's not so bad now.

In addition to his wild early performance art like being crucified on a VW and the supreme getting shot in the arm, he's done other mechanical stuff.

Currency intervention isn't directly related to the stock market. The massive drop was probably due to more evidence of weakness in the American recovery, plus a European think tank bluntly concluded "Debt-laden Italy is likely to default". It's one thing for eleventy billion dollars of loans and bonds to Greece and…

"Life is just a merciful blur, when you pop a Pißwasser.

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