2011 Car Of The Year???

[Shuffler]

Nissan Leaf.... they are kidding right??   Nope!!

What kind of idiots dole out these awards. 

[redman555]

There is one thing that I find very funny about "electric" cars....do people realize even if all cars went electric and we stopped using gasoline, you will have to produce more power to charge everyones cars in the world, which is going to be just as much if not more emissions.

-BigBOBCH

[dedalos]

There is one thing that I find very funny about "electric" cars....do people realize even if all cars went electric and we stopped using gasoline, you will have to produce more power to charge everyones cars in the world, which is going to be just as much if not more emissions.

-BigBOBCH

I think once you show them the calculations and how you arrived on that conclusion, they will understand.  I do agree with you though.  They are as uninformed as the people claiming that it will lead to the same or more emissions.  Is it possible?  Sure.  Is it possible that someone like you or I was able to do the research and come to your conclusion using facts?  Nop! 

What I find funny is that both sides just take the word a person they support only because that person seems to support their uninformed positions and some how what that person/organization/government says becomes the "truth".  Then they go on to preach that truth and claim that they completely understand the subject while calling the other side names 

[whipster22]

Narwhals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc

[Dichotomy]

Don't they think it's a tad late for an April Fools joke?

[RTHolmes]

once you show them the calculations and how you arrived on that conclusion

I'd be interested to see that too.

[CAP1]

Nissan Leaf.... they are kidding right??   Nope!!

What kind of idiots dole out these awards. 

the same ones that gave a certain someone the nobel peace prize? 

[CAP1]

There is one thing that I find very funny about "electric" cars....do people realize even if all cars went electric and we stopped using gasoline, you will have to produce more power to charge everyones cars in the world, which is going to be just as much if not more emissions.

-BigBOBCH

 i keep trying to tell my "green" friends this...and they always have some sort of answer. usually not a very good one though.

[NatCigg]

i got an idea...We can tap heat from the sun to boil water and make electricity to charge batteries to use for transportation.  then we use the extra heat gained from the sun to eliminate all the excess cold above 35 degrees north. now my batteries will be as reliable as combustion engines year round. awesome.

[Flayed]

 Yeah our power company just got bought out by PG&E or what ever they go by and our bill shot up by 30%...     I don't think I want to give those blood suckers the $ to charge my car any more than I really feel like paying the crappy oil companies for gas.    Anybody have a horse for sale?   Oh wait I can't do that either because horses fart and pollute the air as well...  Hmmm I guess I'm screwed lol.

[Hajo]

Nissan leaf?  Some 30 yr. old yuppie who hung on his professors every word ....and incapable of making his own decisions
that's who prolly decided the Leaf was the bomb!

What ever happened to common sense?  Independant thinking and making up ones own mind?

[Yossarian]

So does anyone actually have any studies or figures to support that what redman said is true?  I am genuinely interested to see these if they exist.

[RTHolmes]

  no of course not.

which is more thermodynamically efficient: a power station or a car's petrol engine?

which is cheaper to transport over 100s of miles: 1KW of electricity or 1KW of petrol?

[NatCigg]

assuming the increased demand for electricity will be feed from only burning fossil fuels. sure it makes sense.

[Yossarian]

Interesting viewpoints, both of you.

I've heard that the production process for the cars themselves generates a lot of 'nasties' that you would rather not have floating around in the environment (NB I'm not making a global warming claim here, I'm just saying that polluting is bad), perhaps that would skew it in favour of your typical non-green car...who knows?