Open source projects change the atmosphere in which people work. It adds a legitimate pressure to design software that is useful. It eliminates "takes out the garbage", so to speak. Bad...

The GPL v3 initiative was concerned with the "tivo-ization" of software. I don't have much interest in starting a legal battle. It's questionable as to how that would go down.

For the...

Does the Volt use opensource software? I understand IBM developed the software but nothing indicates any licensing that applies. Any clues from the vehicle?

@VED

Where is your inteligencia? I do not feel threatened of your forum.

Well I like the idea of an outside interest, in this case Google, being in the drivers seat. It prevents the conflict/over-interest of the third party. And it is not a "foreign" interest (ie...

The Chevy Volt site emphasizes that the ICE does not mechanically engage the drive train. It might need to start the ICE/generator, but that is a design feature that I am not privy to. I would...

I had read that it was 3700 somewhere.

OK is good. If after 800 miles he didn't kick the center console in, that's really good. So he still has A/C?

I don't know...I saw a blog about a guy in Switzerland who drove a prototype of a prototype of this car (Volk?) and goat 23.2 MPG on the dot with his head out the window so I might be picking up on...

Given a MPG mark, a real deadline, we could under the theory of doing so, reduce usage. Thereby demand. And there would be some struggle to reach this goal....

But to just raise gas prices...

It ironic, to say the least, that the concern over "nuclear weapons" (pardon me) trumps. These are "theories": what could be done, what could happen, who would do it . . .
you'd only be so lucky.
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The temperature rise is not complex or important.

I think it is in the inability to:

1) break the mold, bust the dams and leave everyone in the dark
and;
2) continue the digging for a...

I've seen the wind farms in Holland, Germany and Austria. They are fairly impressive. Sort of annoyingly anal to watch and think "energy production" but it is only in passing.

It's a shame that...

The problem with this theory is the one of going up hill. You'd only get the generating cap (nominally 54 hp or something?). But that would be to ignore the greater overall efficiency of an...

Wind tunnels have a stationary ground with respect to the vehicle (last I checked). It should be stationary to the atmosphere to provide a realistic test situation. It is important because the...

Silicon sounds like it would be relativistically the safest. I was always hoping sodium was a good choice for a mass battery solution. But nothing ever came of it.

I think that part of the attraction/design/engineering/genius of the Volt is that it would be getting better gas mileage that of a typical car.


I used to own a toyato camry '95. I was able to...