From the first B-Series pickup truck, Mazda has used the engine displacement to determine the name. Thus, the B1500 had a 1.5 L I4 engine, and the B4000 has a 4.0 L V6. For 2002, the name was changed to simply Mazda Truck in the United States. Mazda's partnership with Ford has resulted in the sharing of this vehicle—the Mazda B-Series and Ford Ranger are essentially the same after 1994.
The Ranger and related Mazda B-Series are manufactured at Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which is now scheduled to close in 2011. They were also assembled in Louisville, Kentucky until 1999 and in Edison, New Jersey until the plant's closing in 2004.
$64 question. re:eieo...Energy in/energy out. Looks like the battery needs the internal combustion engine to keep it charged. How can the batteries recover/store more energy than the engine wastes in charging them? Electricity is not an energy sourse, it's an energy transition from power already generated. It's an energy diversifier. It can only be as powerful as whatever is generating it.
Some energy can be recovered back to the batteries through regenerative braking but they can not store more then they are rated to hold and an internal combustion engine wastes more then it provides (mostly through heat).
i got a diesel dodge truck running on a mixture of 20% diesel and 80 on french fry oil that i buy from my local shop and i get better milage and power and smells like a burger shop!!!!
Yeah, it's a cheap solution, but where I live, (the netherlands) it's forbidden, because there are no taxes on french fry oil, that means the government doesn't make money on it. Ridiculous ha?
Hybrid cars are needlessly complicated, as a result they are needlessly expensive so poor people will still buy gas cars. Instead people could buy electric cars that are cheap and efficient.
Year maybe, but on the long run, hybrid cars are cheaper and more convenient; The weak points of gas cars are frequent fuel servicing and high fuel prices (like as of now) while pure electric cars have short ranges between battery recharging and also far longer to replenish the charge. All these are very inconvenient for the "poor people". So the best for now is hybrid cars (needing no external charge and much less gas fuel servicing) and hence the most economical overall of the three.
All this shows is that Electric cars are superior in every way to gas powered cars. Pure electric cars are still the most efficient non-polluting cars, the hybrid is just an excuse by the auto industries to keep making gas cars.
That is an uneducated statement. I own a taxi company and our fleet uses both internal combustion engines (aka ICE) and Hybrid Synergy vehicles and I can tell you there is nothing efficient about a car that can only go an average of 120 miles before needed to be recharged. The recharge time is extremely long and inconvenient. ICE vehicles use an exorbitant amount of fuel (avg about 15mpg city and 22mpg highway). Hybrids average over 45 mpg city AND highway. Hybrids are all around better cars.
That infrastructure costs a fortune and it will be years, possibly decades, before an effective infrastructure is put in place to support EV technology.
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epictroll420 6 months ago
every time i see an hybrid i just wanna mess with the wires and stuff i think it would be funny if an prius go up in flames
dondeadra 8 months ago
So, why does the engine have to start and warm up? Why can't you just take off in electric mode and the engine start when it is needed?
SirTragain 2 years ago
Maybe you need your engine so fast that it's harmful to your cold engine.
jurpik35 2 years ago
Read Click and Clack: Auto Warming article in the Washington Post for September 6th 2008. Just Google it
SirTragain 2 years ago
mazda is owned by ford dumbass
ever wonder why mazda B4000's look just like ford ranger's?
dereksteele1991 2 years ago
@dereksteele1991 mazda is japanese dumbass and its not owned by ford
peKadoDeDioZ 2 years ago
From the first B-Series pickup truck, Mazda has used the engine displacement to determine the name. Thus, the B1500 had a 1.5 L I4 engine, and the B4000 has a 4.0 L V6. For 2002, the name was changed to simply Mazda Truck in the United States. Mazda's partnership with Ford has resulted in the sharing of this vehicle—the Mazda B-Series and Ford Ranger are essentially the same after 1994.
SirTragain 2 years ago
The Ranger and related Mazda B-Series are manufactured at Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which is now scheduled to close in 2011. They were also assembled in Louisville, Kentucky until 1999 and in Edison, New Jersey until the plant's closing in 2004.
SirTragain 2 years ago
that's not a mazda, that's a ford escape.
Nepenthesman 2 years ago
$64 question. re:eieo...Energy in/energy out. Looks like the battery needs the internal combustion engine to keep it charged. How can the batteries recover/store more energy than the engine wastes in charging them? Electricity is not an energy sourse, it's an energy transition from power already generated. It's an energy diversifier. It can only be as powerful as whatever is generating it.
niflap 2 years ago
Some energy can be recovered back to the batteries through regenerative braking but they can not store more then they are rated to hold and an internal combustion engine wastes more then it provides (mostly through heat).
SirTragain 2 years ago
*dreaming- If only we had them ultra-capacitors.*
dondude69 1 year ago
I have a motorcycle that runs on taco bell burrito left overs. Its very inefficient and does not start. Hybrids suck!
JooKed 2 years ago 5
Just farts?
niflap 2 years ago
i got a diesel dodge truck running on a mixture of 20% diesel and 80 on french fry oil that i buy from my local shop and i get better milage and power and smells like a burger shop!!!!
snake322 2 years ago
Yeah, it's a cheap solution, but where I live, (the netherlands) it's forbidden, because there are no taxes on french fry oil, that means the government doesn't make money on it. Ridiculous ha?
xfurb 2 years ago 3
damn dude that sux
snake322 2 years ago
It would freeze in the winter also I believe.
dondude69 1 year ago
Hybrid cars are needlessly complicated, as a result they are needlessly expensive so poor people will still buy gas cars. Instead people could buy electric cars that are cheap and efficient.
gydorack 4 years ago
Year maybe, but on the long run, hybrid cars are cheaper and more convenient; The weak points of gas cars are frequent fuel servicing and high fuel prices (like as of now) while pure electric cars have short ranges between battery recharging and also far longer to replenish the charge. All these are very inconvenient for the "poor people". So the best for now is hybrid cars (needing no external charge and much less gas fuel servicing) and hence the most economical overall of the three.
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SirTragain 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
A plug in hybrid is what people need and then they can decide on how to fuel/drive it.
SirTragain 2 years ago
All this shows is that Electric cars are superior in every way to gas powered cars. Pure electric cars are still the most efficient non-polluting cars, the hybrid is just an excuse by the auto industries to keep making gas cars.
gydorack 4 years ago
this has nothing to do with cvt @ all
phillip0433 4 years ago
That is an uneducated statement. I own a taxi company and our fleet uses both internal combustion engines (aka ICE) and Hybrid Synergy vehicles and I can tell you there is nothing efficient about a car that can only go an average of 120 miles before needed to be recharged. The recharge time is extremely long and inconvenient. ICE vehicles use an exorbitant amount of fuel (avg about 15mpg city and 22mpg highway). Hybrids average over 45 mpg city AND highway. Hybrids are all around better cars.
renegadeda20 3 years ago
taxi guys have always a sandwitch stashed under their sit so they can snack on later. ha ha
bykashka75 3 years ago
The efficiency is there, it is the convenience that isnt.
You could charge a battery in 10 minutes if you had the infrastructure that supported it.
SirTragain 2 years ago
That infrastructure costs a fortune and it will be years, possibly decades, before an effective infrastructure is put in place to support EV technology.
superpilotrenegade 2 years ago