OMG Toyota want the price of fuel to rise.

[Taz]

We should have a couple of Nuclear power stations. Problem solved.

[spacemonkey]

Eeeexcept for the nuclear waste disposal.........

[Indiana_Jones]

The upgraded 1800 in the late 1970s ? A typical piece of British vehicle junk ... one of the reasons the industry collapsed ...

LIES!



It's just a cool as the TR7!

And on topic, cars could run on farts for all I care.

-Indy

[davereid]

I disagree with you on that one, national grid scale electrical generation used even at it's worst is still vastly more efficient than the average internal combustion engine in power to emissions ratio, so much so that your still better off with the air or electric cars.

I hear this from time to time from "greens"

Depending on where you are in the world, they are wrong, very wrong, or very very very wrong.

Even in good old clean NZ we meet peak demand with coal fired stations, or even better, jet engines. Jet engines of course are not more efficient than internal combustion engines. Cos they are internal combustion engines.

If you add more demand with your battery car, where do you think the power will come from?

Ahh yes, you will fill our coastline with tidal generators, waste our hydro water providing spinning reserve for your noisy, inefficient and energy negative wind machines, cry "damn the dam" when we try to build more hydro and then bleat when pensioners can't afford a heat pump.

[Suntoucher]

The problem with compressed air engines is the same as the Chevy Volts main problem.

Which is, that it is not using a primary energy source, it is rather storing and using energy created somewhere else.

So for your chevy volt to be charged, a power station was required.

Exactly the same for your compressed air car. A power station makes electricity, which runs the compressor at the filling station which fills the compressed air tank up.

Except that Boyles law tells us that compressing the air will create heat. Thats energy lost, that we had to provide from the power station.

So all these technologies are useless unless you have plentiful and green electricity. At the moment the world does not.

Yup, never said anything about it being green, efficient or environmentally friendly. Just cheap for the end user and quick to fill.

[neels]

Toyota need to sell more cars, to pay to fix the latest batch of wonky ones they've sold, gotta scare some sales up somehow

Linky

And I agree that the Prius is a crock of shit, you get better fuel economy from a turbo diesel at 1/3 of the manufacturing carbon footprint.