Showing posts with label car. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The Nissan Leaf - Technological wonder or just a goofy looking car ?

    Well, I can't help myself - here's a photo :

      Isn't it goofy ? And that's not all - at 50.000$, it's an EXPENSIVE GOOFY CAR. Dork-car. And it doesn't offer much in the way of technology. It's fully electric, but that doesn't mean it's a miracle. It gets to about 150km/h and goes about 110km at an average speed of 86km/h. That's stupid. That means that for anything else other than driving around the city, this car is useless. And that fast-charge 440V inlet won't help you. Why ? Well, because you need a 440V outlet. Where are you going to find that in the middle of the motorway ?
      Sincerely I really want people to start making good electric cars that go with 160km/h, but which I don't need to recharge every hour. It will help save the planet...wait! who am I kidding ? These cars pollute more than your average TRUCK. In order to make them, manufacturers need to make the batteries in Japan, the material for which they get from China or whatever, then they get the aluminum and everything else they need prefabricated into chassis and whatnot, or they just transport the aluminum to Japan or South Korea where they actually manufacture the car. After which they need to transport the entire car to your local dealer. See where I'm going with this? They're using a lot of resources transport stuff around the world. And no, they don't have ECO cargo freighters. They're polluting a lot. And besides if you make at least one trip outside the city every year, you need ONE MORE CAR to make that trip, because you can't in this goofy thing. So if you really care about the environment and about your own pocket, stay away from these babies for a bit longer.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

"When pigs fly" just got a new dimension of realism

     No, there was no mutant pig born with wings, and no, neither any Nazi experiment came to life. And despite the title, this isn't about pigs flying. It's about something a lot bigger. A bear flew...and killed two canadians.
     Apparently in an extra-freaky accident, a bear was crossing the street just happy that he finished eating dinner a couple of minutes before, when, he was hit by a car. Well, nothing freaky here. Yea, while usually animals hit by cars don't fly...this one did...into another car's windshield. And it didn't just stop there, it flew right through the car, killing the driver and a man sitting behind her, and went out through the back window. Now that's creepy!
     I feel sorry for the bear though...and for the 2 people killed...but more for the bear.

If you want to read the whole story here's a link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110608/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_bear