Jeep's new Renegade concept will look a bit familiar to a number of folks here on Evil Avatar. It probably isn't too far off the mark to call this design inspired by a video game a bunch of you have probably played once or twice. Let me give you a hint, the game starts with an 'H' and rhymes with 'Jell-o'.
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The 2008 Detroit Auto show concept from Jeep revives an old name on a whole new vehicle. The sub-compact sized Renegade is a sci-fi-styled off-roader with a range-extended electric power-train. Like the other two Chrysler concepts this year, the motor's electron supply comes from a lithium ion battery pack, this time sized for a forty one mile range. Further miles are covered supplied by a small Bluetec diesel driving a generator for a combined 110 mpg rating.
Green for the Earth and looks like it could be used to flatten the Covenant? Would you drive one?
110 mpg running diesel fuel? I only drive about 30 miles a day right now (round trip). I would buy this in a second if it was available.
I think that 110 mpg figure is for the diesel combined with the initial 41 mile electric range, over some total trip. So you'd probably be getting significantly less than 110 if you never plugged it in. But it's probably still way more efficient than the average car on the road today.
And I think these range-extended electric vehicles are a good start. The Chevrolet Volt is basically the same concept, done in a 4-door sedan. Plug it in, and the batteries will take you about 40 miles on a full charge, then the range extender engine kicks in to charge the batteries. Doesn't switch between electric motor and gas engine to power wheels, runs on electric motor full-time. Volt's range extender doesn't look like it'll get diesel to start with (at least in the States), but will be flex fuel (unleaded / E85), and maybe later hydrogen (they are working in that direction anyway).
I think that 110 mpg figure is for the diesel combined with the initial 41 mile electric range, over some total trip. So you'd probably be getting significantly less than 110 if you never plugged it in. But it's probably still way more efficient than the average car on the road today.
And I think these range-extended electric vehicles are a good start. The Chevrolet Volt is basically the same concept, done in a 4-door sedan. Plug it in, and the batteries will take you about 40 miles on a full charge, then the range extender engine kicks in to charge the batteries. Doesn't switch between electric motor and gas engine to power wheels, runs on electric motor full-time. Volt's range extender doesn't look like it'll get diesel to start with (at least in the States), but will be flex fuel (unleaded / E85), and maybe later hydrogen (they are working in that direction anyway).
Is not running a car charged with house electric just as harmfull as running it on petrol? The resources a power station uses to make that electric in the first place and the cost of that electric must go against the 110mpg in the long run.
Jell-o rhymes with Halo AND hello AND flow AND plateau AND trio.
Come on now. Don't show everyone on Evil Avatar that you don't know how to rhyme.
Sweet. Inspired by your mad rhyming skills, I've cobbled together a new and improved opening for the article.
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Jeep's new Renegade concept will look a bit familiar to a number of folks here on Evil Avatar. It probably isn't too far off the mark to call this design inspired by a video game a bunch of you have probably played once or twice. Let me give you a hint, the game starts with an 'H' and rhymes with 'Plateau'.
Is not running a car charged with house electric just as harmfull as running it on petrol? The resources a power station uses to make that electric in the first place and the cost of that electric must go against the 110mpg in the long run.
It depends. From a few articles I've read online, if cars were charged from the electric grid instead of burning gasoline, some pollutant emissions would go up, while others would go down (I think CO2 was one of the emissions that would drop). And the issue, at least in the U.S., is that we get a good percentage of our electricity from coal. (But then, what's more efficient, burning dirty fuel at a power plant to create electricity, or burning fuel in each and every car on the road?) There's some discussion of this on Wikipedia's Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle page.
There are other advantages to an electricity-based automotive system, such as less dependence on foreign energy, not wasting energy while idling, being able to 'fill up' at home rather than going out of your way to stop at a gas station, charging at night to make use of some otherwise wasted energy, zero point-of-use pollution.
