"My name's Bruce Kibbutz Mansory. How do winners roll? I'm talking automotive bling, baby. ... I'm talking about being original, just like everybody else who can afford to be. I'm talking about taking a 250,000 dollar sports car designed by world-class engineers and letting a guy from East Hook (uh, Brand, Germany)…

Rare earth mining for electric car batteries is extremely harmful for the environment.

Because by focusing on the cost lazy journalists disregard the many reasons people should value a more fuel-efficient car. It leads to the bizarre defeatist attitude of looking at anyone who shells out money for one as if they're a chump instead of someone trying to do the right thing…

GM Volt owners are driving hundreds and even thousands of miles without gasoline. Jay Leno's Chevy Volt consumed about 4.6 gallons of gas in its first 11,000 miles [wheels.blogs.nytimes.com]

Maybe, but meanwhile over half of the people who ordered a Volt are first time buyers of a Chevrolet brand vehicle.

Making recyclable, non-toxic lithium-ion batteries is NOT a brutal environmental process!, despite the unscientific handwaving crap you've seen from Jeremy Clarkson and other entertainers.

There's a a federal tax credit of up to $7500 for a plug-in car, and states offer other tax credits and rebates. Go read [en.wikipedia.org]

The Average Driver drives 29 miles a day, within the Volt's all-electric range, and way less than the Leaf/i-MiEV/Focus Electric range, whether highway or not. The benefit is still there in highway driving for millions of drivers.

I agree with your point on taxation, but it's highly suspect that fuel-efficient cars make things worse. They immediately reduce the amount of pollution someone puts out, and everything else is conjecture. As lazy journalists love to point out, it takes years for the money you save to pay for the increased cost of the…

Opels sold in the UK as Vauxhalls have always had a griffin logo (head and wings of an eagle with the body of a lion). Now they can go all lion.

Germany's doing better than the USA, but "Of the 30 hydrogen filling stations operating now in Germany, only seven are available to the public." The map at [www.h2stations.org] seems to match. Talk is cheap, we'll see if the stations actually get built. Mercedes still appears gung-ho over the concept of HFCVs, but the…

I have no problem with the FCX Clarity as the most advanced car of this millennium, and I'm sure the 20 leaseholders driving around Southern California (where the only public H2 refueling stations in the entire USA exist) enjoy the car.

A modest battery plus a small ~40hp generator would work great, but car manufacturers haven't seems to stumble on the concepts the transportation industry has used for decades.

The majority of electricity doesn't come from coal on the west coast (see EPA map at [www.fueleconomy.gov] ), it's dropping everywhere thanks to all the domestic gas production under Obama, and goes to zero if you put solar panels on the roof.

The Volt does put a lot of technologies together. So does the Clarity, but it's a dead-end unless gas runs out AND bioethanol doesn't happen.

Maybe Project NINA is (was?) all that. All we know is Fisker was going to use 4-cylinder turbo BMW engines for its plug-in hybrid drivetrain.

If you buy an Escalade 2WD Hybrid instead of the regular gasser, your mpg goes from 16 to 21. Doesn't sound like much, but over 120,000 miles of pimp-rollin' style you'll save nearly 1,800 gallons of gasoline, that weigh 5.5 TONS. That's more gas than you'll save going from a TDI to a Prius.

R6 "Envia’s announcement said that its packs would deliver cell energy of

It's probably just cost sharing for various components of future modular platforms. BBC has a good explanation of the pros and cons, [www.bbc.co.uk]

Big heavy pickup with poor aerodynamics means it takes a lot of batteries to get the same range as a Leaf, so it's expensive, so a long payback. But it's coming, slowly.