ECO Assist - Honda

[Izso]

Try Fords Focus 1.0 Ecoboost. It's a 3-potter and higher MPG than the bigger 1.6 variant. But it's more powerful than the 1.6 so it looks like cars are becoming more efficient which is a good thing right?

 

[Supra_Fanatics]

To me, electric cars are not practical just yet. There are limited area to charge the car and
how much electric do we need to use to charge the car...Duration? Reliability? Convenience?

Unless everywhere there are place to charge the car. Even so, can it charge as quick as
pumping a petrol? or after traveling for a distance and power is low, got to charge at
home and cant go out until it is fully charge?

Still find hybrid cars makes more sense yet proven to saves fuel.

Using a lot of electricity itself to charge the car is definitely no environment friendly at all...

 

[arturo]

600km on a single charge is great...but having to wait another 3hours to get it fully charged back up is no fun.

IF they come up with a battery that can provide more than 400+ km range per charge and a recharge time of less than 5 minutes with charging stations aplenty...then the future is definitely electric.

a range extender is just an intermediary technology as it makes use of current petrol station infrastructure and current battery capabilities. but as i said...once batteries catch up to the above consumer requirements, then that would be the final nail in the coffin for petroleum powered cars...

i dunno but having an oil burning range extender makes me independent of the system. i can make my own oil and even recycle. If the world comes to an end...i could still get my vehicle to move as my source of energy can be self made.

i think Aston Martin created a turbine range extender once? a jet turbine can also burn any oil to create kinetic energy which is then converted to electric. very interesting.

 

[ijnek]

hybrids...it's green to drive...but green to make? especially the batt....

i prefer the volks way of doing things...
we hv to burn petrol anyway, how abt makin the most efficiency out of it?
TC a small engine for the same power output as a bigger CC engine...u get more power and yet burn less petrol compare to the engine with the same power output...