Comments on: Fiat Working on New Small Car Hybrid Platform http://ecomodder.com/blog/fiat-working-small-car-hybrid-platform/ Wrench smart - driver smarter - save fuel Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Uncle B http://ecomodder.com/blog/fiat-working-small-car-hybrid-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-4328 Uncle B Thu, 28 May 2009 21:08:04 +0000 http://ecomodder.com/blog/?p=1207#comment-4328 The horrendous inflation/devaluation of the dollar has already begun. Very soon, oil will jump exponentially to new all time highs, as our dollar sinks even with respect to the new Asian World Currency, the "Yuan" As the world adjusts to the new American reality, we will be forced to face the impracticality of metal bodied cars, and require desperately small cheap plug-in battery driven plastic ultralight commuters to keep us dry, from train terminal to home, and shop to home. The "Glory Days" are over! Good-Time Charlie is broke. Americans no longer produce enough to justify what they consume. The Uber-Rich of America have fled, taking factories, patents, and capital with them, to the Shanghai and other Asian markets. All is converted to the magical, Asian backed "Yuan" and the mighty American dollar is tumbling in value as we speak! Even little Canada, a speck on the face of the financial world, has a dollar approaching unity with the sawbuck! A very small hybrid Fiat will be considered a great luxury in a walking America. Soon, tandem two-seater carbon fiber ultralight plug-in commuter cars will appear and flourish on a market bereft of the behemoths of yesteryear! The SUV is dead! GM its progenitor has been castrated and lies dying! The big Chrysler's, Desotos, Plymouths, Dodges, and Fargo's of old are but a memory now. Save for a few Uber-Rich,with money in the bank, no-one in America has the cash to pay for more than survival fare! We are broke, the country is broke, the markets are back, so we continue, with unemployment, under-employment, a "Green Obama Dream" and change - The status quo has been broken! Never to return! we are going through "The Change"! Brace yourselves to make personal sacrifices in the name of a practical socialism, and extremely high prices. We are about to be devalued to the tune of at least 3 Trillion dollars - an astounding amount, and in a very short time. We must convert our lawns and parks to veggie gardens to feed the hungry - US! Look to chicken raising, Aquaculture, veggie plots and composting, because the price of oil is about to put the Status Quo out of reach for most Americans, and the factories, once our life-blood and saviors in hard times, have all been moved to Asia! Don't fool yourselves, the family farms are gone, the forests are gone, the wildlife is gone, and so are the breed of men that were conditioned to exploit them! We are a pasty faced, air conditioned drugged boozed up, car driven, well washed bunch of computer operators and the like - with no survival skills outside the office space! We have specialized ourselves to the point of extinction, and may well die, huddled in front of our McMansions, praying before our SUV's for one more mile! It is over, America, Over, save for the Hybrid Fiat, we have no hope! The horrendous inflation/devaluation of the dollar has already begun. Very soon, oil will jump exponentially to new all time highs, as our dollar sinks even with respect to the new Asian World Currency, the “Yuan” As the world adjusts to the new American reality, we will be forced to face the impracticality of metal bodied cars, and require desperately small cheap plug-in battery driven plastic ultralight commuters to keep us dry, from train terminal to home, and shop to home. The “Glory Days” are over! Good-Time Charlie is broke. Americans no longer produce enough to justify what they consume. The Uber-Rich of America have fled, taking factories, patents, and capital with them, to the Shanghai and other Asian markets. All is converted to the magical, Asian backed “Yuan” and the mighty American dollar is tumbling in value as we speak! Even little Canada, a speck on the face of the financial world, has a dollar approaching unity with the sawbuck! A very small hybrid Fiat will be considered a great luxury in a walking America. Soon, tandem two-seater carbon fiber ultralight plug-in commuter cars will appear and flourish on a market bereft of the behemoths of yesteryear! The SUV is dead! GM its progenitor has been castrated and lies dying! The big Chrysler’s, Desotos, Plymouths, Dodges, and Fargo’s of old are but a memory now. Save for a few Uber-Rich,with money in the bank, no-one in America has the cash to pay for more than survival fare! We are broke, the country is broke, the markets are back, so we continue, with unemployment, under-employment, a “Green Obama Dream” and change – The status quo has been broken! Never to return! we are going through “The Change”! Brace yourselves to make personal sacrifices in the name of a practical socialism, and extremely high prices. We are about to be devalued to the tune of at least 3 Trillion
dollars – an astounding amount, and in a very short time. We must convert our lawns and parks to veggie gardens to feed the hungry – US! Look to chicken raising, Aquaculture, veggie plots and composting, because the price of oil is about to put the Status Quo out of reach for most Americans, and the factories, once our life-blood and saviors in hard times, have all been moved to Asia! Don’t fool yourselves, the family farms are gone, the forests are gone, the wildlife is gone, and so are the breed of men that were conditioned to exploit them! We are a pasty faced, air conditioned drugged boozed up, car driven, well washed bunch of computer operators and the like – with no survival skills outside the office space! We have specialized ourselves to the point of extinction, and may well die, huddled in front of our McMansions, praying before our SUV’s for one more mile! It is over, America, Over, save for the Hybrid Fiat, we have no hope!

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]]> By: Benjamin Jones http://ecomodder.com/blog/fiat-working-small-car-hybrid-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-4217 Benjamin Jones Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:19:20 +0000 http://ecomodder.com/blog/?p=1207#comment-4217 Even so, they're not providing fuel efficient vehicles. Someone with no family who lives in the city and wants to save gas isn't going to be a truck, regardless. But city mileage would be improved tremendously if the small car they would buy anyway included an electric motor to take the stress of slowly and stopping off of the gasoline engine. Even so, they’re not providing fuel efficient vehicles. Someone with no family who lives in the city and wants to save gas isn’t going to be a truck, regardless. But city mileage would be improved tremendously if the small car they would buy anyway included an electric motor to take the stress of slowly and stopping off of the gasoline engine.

]]> By: Brett Chandler http://ecomodder.com/blog/fiat-working-small-car-hybrid-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-4216 Brett Chandler Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:47:41 +0000 http://ecomodder.com/blog/?p=1207#comment-4216 Actually, I don't like small hybrids. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more viable the technology. Why? Hybrid tech adds weight and complexity. In a sub-compact, this tends to negate a lot of the benefit you get from choosing that smaller form-factor to begin with. The current GMC Yukon/Cadillac Escalade Hybrid is actually a great hybrid; it's large enough to make packaging batteries easy, and that battery pack doesn't add disproportionately to the weight of an already heavy vehicle. Even better, larger, heavier vehicles benefit more from regenerative braking, since they have so much more momentum to capture. Actually, I don’t like small hybrids. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more viable the technology.

Why? Hybrid tech adds weight and complexity. In a sub-compact, this tends to negate a lot of the benefit you get from choosing that smaller form-factor to begin with. The current GMC Yukon/Cadillac Escalade Hybrid is actually a great hybrid; it’s large enough to make packaging batteries easy, and that battery pack doesn’t add disproportionately to the weight of an already heavy vehicle.

Even better, larger, heavier vehicles benefit more from regenerative braking, since they have so much more momentum to capture.

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