[citation][nom]kingtoid[/nom]I agree. Smog is bad in California but in SoCal (except for like San Diego) it is just ridiculous. Where I live is bad but LA is often worse. Sometimes when I go there it is painful to breathe.I have often hypothesized that everyone in LA, single commuter traffic that is, should just ride motorcycles. Sure it would be like several Asian countries, but at least it would reduce smog/congestion and people would shut up about MPG and all that other crap.I am still annoyed how they sell newer cars like they get better gas mileage than older "clunkers" when really they are far worse. It is all about emissions. My grandpa has always bought the 3/4 or 1 ton Dodge trucks, with good reason. He has been buying the diesel ones since they first started coming out in the late 80's. He had one of the 24 valve 5.9L Cummins motors in a mid 90's truck and it got 20MPG consistently. His new truck which is basically identical except that it is red and not a dually gets only 15MPG if he is very careful driving it. I don't understand why the government and the manufacturers can not realize the great potential in big power and adequate gearing. STS turbo got a brand new corvette. Put on a twin turbo kit, nothing wild, just a mild tune, stock bottom end, motor, and what not. And then they drove it on the freeway and averaged 40MPG. Cars are starting to improve but there is no sense in having an Overdrive gear (or 2[or 3; yes I am talking to you BMW, Mercedes, Bugatti, and the like of you]) if your engine is not powerful enough to use it.And just to screw with all of you I would like to inform you all that there are still a large number of people that drive Challengers from the 1970's with the 426 HEMI motors and the real low rear gears that average 8MPG. 8. Just consider that. I would say that we have improved at least a small bit since then. Just saying.And yeah that is kind of funny about the lead acid batteries and how we can completely recycle and reuse every single component (lead and acid included). And then we can't seem to fix the air quality. I will say that it is not entirely man's fault. In big cities it is, but not everywhere else.[/citation]
thats not what I am complaining about, I am complaining about the expensive battery. lithium ion batteries only last a few years
when the battery wears out and doesn't hold a charge anymore, there very expensive to replace
also when a battery is completely worn out, they become a energy black hole, for example get a laptop with a completely worn out battery, and using a program like everest look at the power monitor
you will see that the charge rate is constantly on, giving power constantly to a battery that looses power just as fast as you charge it. in a car that means a higher engine load at all time because the engine has to run at a higher RPM to generate power to charge the battery that will never finish charging.
in other words crappy gas mileage, wort than a all gas engine car.
also people who buy the own their own car generally want to keep their car longer than they keep their ipod. (also after about 6 months to a year, the battery in the hybrid has already lost a good amount of it's charging capacity, this is how the batteries are, they loos a ton of mAh then level off slightly for a while then crash at a very low capacity where the cells are too worn to hold a charge for what little mAh it has and becomes a black hole for energy
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