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It would also have been interesting to see a comparison of the most efficient gas vehicle ever sold in the US ( Metro XFI) vs the best hybrid ( original Insight), best diesel ( probably a Golf TDI) and the best electric. My money is on the Metro as the all time economic efficiency champ.
As far as their data set goes, I would like to know where their assumptions come from. They did not specify which vehicles they were using as the point of comparison and seem to have just pulled these numbers out of thin air. It also fails to take into account vehicles outside the US market like the VW Polo Bluemotion or Toyota Aygo ( a inexpensive 3 cylinder car with great fuel efficiency that anyone could afford to buy, not a $35k electric). Without showing an actual set of vehicles it makes the report seem biased towards the writer's particular proclivities and is thus not very scientific. Sorry, but it is poorly researched as far as I am concerned and only serves to push the writer's love of electric cars.
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No green technology will ever make a substantive environmental impact until it is economically viable for most people to use it. This must be from a reduction in net cost of the new technology, not an increase in the cost of the old technology through taxation
(Note: the car sees 100% city driving and is EPA rated at 37 mpg city)
Last edited by Jim-Bob; 01-03-2011 at 03:21 PM..
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