Comments on: GM Planning Dedicated High Efficiency Hybrid Sedan

By: Category Cadillac | GM working on dedicated hybrid sedan?

Category Cadillac | GM working on dedicated hybrid sedan? — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:18:41 +0000

[...] GM apparently has a plan to address its midsize hybrid shortcomings. Speaking to GM-Volt.com, Chevrolet head Ed Peper said: What we are trying to work towards is ‘Yes,’ we will [...]

By: Ken Grubb

Ken Grubb — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:50:21 +0000

The Fusion Hybrid stepped up and beat the Camry Hybrid by 24% in city driving. Malibu Hybrid is gonna have to meet or beat the Fusion Hybrid methinks.

Fusion Hybrid savings at $2.50/gallon

$27,270 – Hybrid MSRP
$23,975 – SEL MSRP w/4 cylinder (SEL & Hybrid are closest in terms of features)
$1,700 – Federal tax credit
$1,595 – Hybrid premium

23,975 + 1,700 + 1,595 = 27,270

Hybrid – 41 MPG city – 6.1 cents a mile
ICE – 23 MPG city – 10.9 cents a mile

You save 4.8 cents a mile in city driving with the Hybrid. Fusion Hybrid premium will be repaid after 33K miles of city driving, 69K miles without the Federal tax credit.

By: Xiaowei1

Xiaowei1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:21:54 +0000

It is naive to say we will not one day have the technology to produce hydrogen for next to nothing. What if we could just pour water into our cars, and it gets extracted on the fly though some process we have not yet discovered? Why be so limited to the requirements you have outlined? We have the infrastructure for distributing water too – With that thought, if you read my reply you would see I started with “We would all love hydrogen to simply work, and be virtually free for the masses”.

We cannot do this yet, but there is no reason to suggest this is not possible, we just simply can’t do it yet, and we certain will not build Hydrogen distribution channels before we can even produce cheap hydrogen – that is it can compete with the cost of electricity and batteries required for electric cars.

I won’t argue against renewable energy sources, as I think we should be using as much as we can already.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:42:37 +0000

Remember as a sidenote to this, that gas will go very much higher when they declare that we have reached peak oil production. Imagine how the markets react when oil is not cheap any more. 4 dollars, pish-posh. What about 12-15 dollars a gallon. That’s when the Volt shines!!!

By: CS Guy

CS Guy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:07:05 +0000

I hate to keep posting this link…
http://www.rasertech.com/media/videos/rasers-extended-range-electric-fleet-truck

People, people, people. You can have a truck. It just doesn’t have to suck gas like a sieve fer cryin’ out loud. There is no reason why trucks have to get such crappy gas mileage. You truck buyers should be picketing in front of dealerships demanding better gas mileage or BEV trucks (yes you can have that too: Jungle Motors can turn your pickup into an EV and you can do the same with your truck – and Ford, Dodge, GM etc. can as well.

It would be better for America if we doubled the gas mileage of all the trucks on the road than if we doubled the mileage of all the family sedans on the road.

Demand better or YOU WILL NEVER GET IT!