2010 Volt Revealed...just now!

[timlush]

Looks like a 4dr Civic.

[Yuri]

Design wise they messed up the exterior.
In addition to screwing with the proportions, they replicated the cool glass door inserts with BLACK PAINT on the production car. At that point, what does it matter?

The interior is something to look forward to, I have a friend who's working on it, and he says they are actually doing some revolutionary things with color and trim.

[exitspeed]

Originally Posted by future240

If this was 30,000 I would seriously consider gettin it when I graduated college. For 40,000 I could get a bmw 328I. (Yes the gas mileage would be quite a bit less, but its a bmw so its worth it.)

I'm curious mod wise what could one do to this car

Different cars. That's like saying, instead of a Elise I'm going to just buy an Escalade.

Originally Posted by DrtyRat

Why is Yuri's car @ the top of that website?

He's one of the writers of the site with me, Dorki Dori and Drift Freaq.

Originally Posted by twistedsymphony

Part of the reason it's so hard to break the dependancy on oil is that oil must be produced and delivered in a very specific way. it needs to be harvested and then refined and then distributed... it requires a tremendous infrastructure to get that fuel from it's original place to your vehicle.

Even if you run an electric car off of power from your home, which comes from a power plant that's just as pollutant as your car was, it's a step in the right direction...

The reason being is that it's a whole lot easier to swap out that coal plant for a wind farm than it is to completely replace the oil infrastructure. Electricity can be produced from many many many sources, some good some not so good, but moving everyone to a more versatile and more easily transported power source. Consider that we have power lines to transport electricity a short distance from the plant while oil must be trucked and shipped in from half way around the world.

Nothing is going to give you instant gratification, you're not going to build _A_ car and solve the pollution and oil issues in one shot.... but if you know your ultimate goal and map out a path with achievable milestones you can probably reach it in a decade or two.

Shifting dependency from oil to electricity is the first step... electric motors can be just as powerful an fast as combustion engines, they're also smaller, lighter, and way more efficient (in terms of how much potential energy is actually converted to movement).

Once we've started that we can work on shifting electricity producers from not so green methods (coal) to more green methods (wind, solar, etc)...

while battery capacity is a big issue, and so is the effecency of solar panels, increasing their use will only make them better. Necessity is the mother of invention and if there is money to be made in better battery and solar tech then the big corporations will throw their resources towards finding those better methods and making them cheaper and more marketable...

Great post. Posi rep awarded....

Originally Posted by mRclARK1

We'll be one of the generations saying "I remember when cars ran on stuff that could go boom!"

haha

Don't worry, Hydrogen cars are going to start getting a lot more attention. In 15 years hydrogen cars will be on the road. It's funny that some people fear them becoming hydrogen bombs. They forget that they drive to and fro in a car filled with one of the most flammable liquids on the planet. lol

[DrtyRat]

Originally Posted by exitspeed

He's one of the writers of the site with me, Dorki Dori and Drift Freaq.

I saw your SN on there, but just thought it was a type of forum response.