It's conventional cars that have lead-ACID battery packs. You're thinking nickel, and even so all the crocodile tears that people pretend to shed over nickel mining are bogus: it's present in the steel and chrome of conventional cars and the Sudbury mine has cleaned up a lot.

Over 120,000 miles, you're still burning 3 tons more gasoline than the Prius (here's the math). 50 mpg isn't slightly better, it's hugely better. The Prius battery weighs ~120 pounds. It doesn't disintegrate at the end of its warranty (10 years/150,000 miles in California) but even if it did, there's no way the…

No, the Hummer produces way more pollution than a Prius. That 2007 study from CNW Marketing was garbage and has been completely and comprehensively debunked. All reputable studies find that 75-90% of the lifetime energy use of a car occurs in its use, not its production, and energy is a reasonable, though inexact,…

Relax, I'm not attacking you, just your rhetorical question.

Selling 1,900 $109,000 electric sports cars is phenomenal.

You just don't get it. If your regular commute is less than ~35 miles, you burn no gasoline. GM says Volt owners averaged 1000 miles between fill-ups last March. That's obviously of no value to you, despite every Republican president for the last 40 years intoning "America must end its addiction to oil", but it's a…

"Hate Liberty City, it's cold and it's damp, and all the people dressed like monkeys...

I remember getting buff to get to 100% with Katie Zahn, then getting chunky for Michelle Cannes, then having to get scrawny for Helena Wankstein. I never did get to 100% with Helena...

Don't forget diving for oysters, triathlons, working out, dating girlfriends, managing your weight (some girlfriends liked you chunky), car customizing, long-distance trucking, biplane stunt races, BMX stunting, motorbike stunting, hovercraft racing, turf wars, bicycle delivery, gun ranges, jump jets, jetpacks, taxi…

"Energi" is the name Ford is giving to its plug-in hybrid variants, starting with the C-Max Energi announced in January.

For one, you're ignoring life cycle energy costs

I don't think viable means what you think it does. You get in a cool tech car that you overnight cheaply and better-overall-for-the-environment "refueled" at home, you have a blast driving your regular commute, you return home. Sounds good, especially if you're one of the majority of Americans in a multi-car family…

Sure, but on that score the Volt is working well as a halo car: "Of the initial batch of Volt owners, about half hadn't stepped into a Chevy dealership in eight years," [GM spokesman Rob Peterson] said. "A third never had."

I'd say producing and selling 1,900 Roadsters, and selling your battery and motor technology to other companies is delivering a lot more than Vector Motors. Tesla has already made more beta Model S than all the prototypes and show cars Vector made in its first 22 (!) years.

You are. Ray Wert hates Musk! Doesn't matter that Musk restarted the EV market by founding a company that's produced and sold 1,900 decent sports cars, developed and sold battery and motor tech to other companies, or that the gorgeous and innovative Model S seems to be making good progress toward production. (See…

Through TARP, the federal government mandated that GM build extended range or full electric vehicles

"The Prius is overrated because it's a POS" is a great example of begging the question (not "raising the question", thanks for providing an example of the correct form). I supplied supporting facts and Jalopnik's own review, all you do is restate religious dogma.

I think Musk is talking about the upcoming revision to SAE J1772 to support a "combo coupler" that adds two chunky pins below the standard AC connector for fast DC charging. They supply 200–450 V DC and up to 200 A (90 kW); the receptacle is compatible with all the AC public charging stations out there.

The Continental GT is a two-door twin-turbocharged W12 coupe for $190,000, the Phantom is a monstrous sedan for twice the price at $380,000. They don't seem remotely comparable. And the DBS is $275,000 for similar hp and only 0.1s faster 0-60. Click around car sites for a while and the Bentley almost looks sensible.…

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