Recent content by Ohm Alone

I actually SAW a plug-in Prius Prius at my local dealer! It was a special order. I have never seen it on the road, or seen ANY on the road in Canada.

JUST the S, X and 3. Nothing about past (Roadster) or future (?) models using batteries from a different source. Even if they don't, they 'might'. You have to be very precise about the interpretation of EM's runic utterances. If he didn't say exactly that, he didn't say it.

Canada is a net exporter of power, but we have unresolved distribution issues all over the place. There is no complete west-east pipeline for oil (yet? I tend to think that the Canada East pipeline will be a dog's breakfast financially IF it is ever built ) and so we export oil to the US/via the...

Joe Romm is right as he usually is. The 'peak' idea (of anything) has long been misunderstood as being the maximum production point ever, beyond which it drops off inexorably. More correctly, it should be understood as the 'maximum output ever at the price you want or are willing to pay'. So...

"Perpindicular Parking"? What is that? Does it have anything to do with 'traxyon control'?

Umm, no. I'm Canadian and I understand US tax credits better. From what I've seen, its full credits (to the extent of individual tax circumstances) on the first 200,000 cars SOLD in the USA (not worldwide production/sales) After that, it ramps downwards much like the situation in Denmark in...

Ummm...that is correct about the BEV part, but have you forgotten Kaiser-Frazer (later Kaiser-Willys) which sold about 730,000 cars from their main plant in Willow Run, Michigan, but also from their other plants in Leaside, Ontario; Portland, OR; Long Beach, CA; Haifa, Israel; Rotterdam...

Yes, but unlike Canada (as just one small example) Norwegians have treated their oil and gas industry from the very beginning as a resource that is here for a good time, not really a long time. It has made all the right moves over a few decades to ensure that hundreds of years after the last...

Thanks for the only the second really laugh out moment today.

Again going back to Fuel Cells for a second, they CAN be BRILLIANT but not 1) anything other than hydrogen in something the size and mobility of a vehicle from a large transit bus or smaller, or 2) hydrogen as a fuel for any use other than intrastellar/interstellar usage. IF it were technically...

You might say that the CHARGE is inevitable :-) :-)

Bangor Bob + n+1 :-) Actually, to my way of thinking, the only FCV what would make ANY sort of sense at all in the least, would be one with a plug, as in a plug-in Prius, instead of a Prius which a Mirai is--an expensive, cramped, slow Prius. Why? well, its like the old joke but backwards...

Cooler...and better. Better always works for me, and I'm a lot older.

I have a friend who at one time got the most incredible deal on a lease of a new Pontiac Aztec...black on black on black. The dealer begged Dave to take it off his hands because no-one else would. Dave needed a large lease vehicle for a couple of years, and this loaded to the gills vehicle was...

For all the kvetching about the various mules, and camera distortion, there is no way in the universe that any version of the X actually looks in the least like an Aztec. I kept close company with a black Aztec for a while that a friend had on a short lease at seriously giveaway rates because...