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20-05-2008, 11:48 AM | #31 | |||
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20-05-2008, 12:19 PM | #32 | |||
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Holden has two options here... They could go PETROL hybrid as used in the Chevrolet Volt or DIESEL hybrid as used in the Opel and Saturn Flextreme. The other hybrids are getting 65km just on electrical charge without using the internal combustion engine at all. On the highway, they are just ticking over 1,000km's in cars fitted with 45L tanks. The electric motor itself is 120kw, plus the output of the engine they back it up with (volt uses 1L turbo 3 cylinder, opel and saturn use a 1.3L diesel 4 cylinder). |
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20-05-2008, 12:24 PM | #33 | |||
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Its quite funny how people are paranoid about global warming and carbon emissions, so instead we're pumping huge amounts of cancer causing chemicals into our atmosphere. Heres hoping we develop a cure for cancer too :p |
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20-05-2008, 02:39 PM | #34 | ||
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'Holden drives Commodore into green market'
translation: GM works overtime developing chevy prius aka. volt so that it doesnt look like a backwards focused oil nazi corp that everyone assumes it is. In a news article even a Himalayan tribesman could have predicted holden will be impregnated with the technology and article writer runs with the tired old aussie holden is the schiznit theme.
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20-05-2008, 05:07 PM | #35 | ||
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Bob Lutz recons the Chevy Volt will be lucky if it breaks even, let alone makes any money, but they believe they have no choice but to compete with Toyota even though it makes no sense. How will Holden make money off a Hybrid Commodore, I reckon its economy would struggle to beat a turbo diesel Commy or Falcon.
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20-05-2008, 05:08 PM | #36 | |||
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