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Possibly The Most Important Car Since The Model-T Or Austin 7

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by GB-Hack, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. I Digress

    I Digress Guest

    And plus, isn't the Tesla like a guy in a backyard workshop building them by hand? :D
     
  2. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Isolationism would be taking a giant step backwards.

    The Canadian & American economies are so intertwined that ANY type of protectionism would be counterproductive----not to mention that moves towards isolationism would likely contravene NAFTA. I

    I have serious issues with NAFTA--mostly because it was always about the US having unfettered access to our natural resources --but no one is going to tear it up.

    Access to our oil and water is the source of the anti-NAFTA argument up here--not job losses.
     
  3. CM Punk

    CM Punk Guest

    Yeah, okay, but how many cup holders does it have?
     
  4. ArnoldBabar

    ArnoldBabar Active Member

    4, and only to fit Tazo tea and Vitamin Water.
     
  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I thought this thread was about the Tata Nano.
     
  6. trifectarich

    trifectarich Well-Known Member

    If this is a step that allows us to buy less oil from those thieves in Venezuela or Saudi Arabia, I'm all for it.
     
  7. MacDaddy

    MacDaddy Active Member

    The Volt isn't a pure electric car; it has a good old-fashioned gasoline internal-combustion engine powering the electric motor.

    Hydrogen is a huge game-changer. If the infrastructure to support it is developed (big if, of course), something like the Clarity would be huge.
     
  8. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    Now correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he say that the hydrogen fuel costs roughly the same as "petrol"? Why would that be if hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the universe?

    I mean, I understand that there's not a lot of it being produced right now to fuel cars, but if these cars are a near-future reality, wouldn't someone go into the production of this?

    Plus, if these cars become as big as they should, what would the Al Gores of the world have to whine about?
     
  9. MacDaddy

    MacDaddy Active Member

    I think you're on the right track -- once something like this takes off, compressed hydrogen prices would likely go down. But there's going to be some serious costs to get things ramped up.
     
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