Anybody seen the Lincvolt that Neil Young is touting?

[RiseAbove]

Neil Young: So You Want A Big Electric Car? The Dissident Times: The Lincvolt: Electric Heavy Metal I would buy one right now and in the same color as the pic. Love the wheel covers.

[jamesqf]

Yuck! Instead of gas guzzlers, they'd have people driving watt-guzzlers, and where's the benefit in that?

[RiseAbove]

Hadn't thought about that. Maybe if you had a solar garage to juice the thing up...

[RiseAbove]

Do the pizza pan wheel covers offset the otherwise unaerodynamic front end?

[MetroMPG]

Neil Young modding his '59 Lincoln vert into a 100mpg biodiesel plug-in hybrid

It's definitely a monster. More efficient than the gasoline version of course, but still an energy hog.

That said, I think the key thing is that Young can bring the message of alternative powertrain options to a wide audience.

Their site has some decent info: LINC VOLT - Repowering The American Dream - Fueled By Design

[jamesqf]

I think their problem's right in the link title. "Repowering the American Dream"? Cars like that are only in my nightmares. Though I suppose it's a reflection on a certain segment of American culture. Me, I'd rather be a ninja than a champion sumo wrestler :-)