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Old 10-22-2009, 03:16 PM   #267 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by theunchosen View Post

featherweight cars, with 1 liter engines, low to the ground with decent aero could fairly easily destroy EVs and hybrids on cost/mile and emissions/mile(if the electrical production average for that location is considered). They could also be cheaper to manufacture and sell. A lotus Evora is in the volts price range and does 30 mpg... and stomps it into oblivion on a high speed run... and probably gets better FE on that high speed run.
I think we are already seeing this starting to become reality now. It appears, to me, that if things continue on today's path, that we could have a market of a lot of fairly inexpensive lightweight small gas powered engine cars that get CLOSE to the mileage of some much more expensive hybrids. In the end the market will have to shake things up.
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