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  • I can't wait for electric cars to be more affordable.

  • everything is good, but where from it collected 300kg of its weight???

  • Where can I buy one?

  • i want a nuclear powered car!

  • I just have this strong desire to drop a motorcycle engine in it. Same for the VW 1L.

  • OH shit Its Green!

  • @thePANGvideos

    New reactor designs include internal storage for all of the waste they will produce over their 60 year lifespan. If we invested the money spent on nuclear into solar we'd get a fraction of the energy production capacity for many times what it ought to cost. Anti-nuclear is simply irrational in this day and age.

  • ew.

  • well my name just-so-happens to be trev :)

  • Actually, depending on the situation, chances are that TREV would have mearly been pushed out of the way with no more than a busted fiberglass body. Newtons law.

  • yeah but if they both were driving a car like this and not an H3 (or some other ridiculous 4x4), at least the moron doesn't survive to breed and perpetuate the root problem.

  • To the coal guy - A quick search will tell you how much dirt gets put into the air by coal power plants. I think there are 500 in the USA. China is building 1500 plants. It's not only the "greens" that are affected by this. It may be our only solution for now, but it's not a good solution.

  • HHO seems to be the energy of the now and the future.

  • For some optical reason, the car looks out of alignment.

  • Put a gasoline engine in it and I'll buy one.

  • Put a gasoline engine in it wouldbe defeating the purpose. Also oil will reach $200 a barrel by the end of the year, so only the rich will be able to drive Planet Killers

  • You are aware that electricity doesn't originate from an outlet on the wall, right?

    We burn fuels to produce electricity that gets steped up to travel long distances to a trandformer that steps it down to charge a battery that runs an electric motor. With each transaction you're losing efficiency-and energy.

    So why not just eliminate the middle man?

    Or we could go nuclear. But that makes the Greenies sad.

  • Yes you can eliminate the middleman and use solar, wind or wave energy and convert that to electricity.

    Nuclear is a no no! for the reasons you have just mentioned concerning fossil fuels. Also we would be back to square one within 20 years if we build the nuclear power stations they say we need.

  • I live in the Louisville area. We routinely go through WEEKS when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. Also, we're nowhere near the ocean. With solar and wind you get such an intermittent and pathetic return of energy for the energy invested. It's just not workable. The best solar and wind can do is supplement the existing grid, in certain locatons at certain times. No amount of wishful thinking will change that. Before we freeze in the dark, we'll go nuclear.

  • In my area we burn coal. We're absolutely awash in the stuff. And my utility bill is quite small because of that beautiful black rock.

    And the silver lining of $4 a gal gas is that coal gasification is now competitively priced to compete with oil-based gasoline.

    But regardless of where gas comes from, I'd love a super-high MPG car to get around in just to save money. But I'm not going to put up with pathetic performance so the greenies feel good about themselves.

  • People are anti nuclear, but it's actaully the cheapest form of reliable power.

    Coal powerstations are more eff than gas cars, so it's still better to drive electric.

    Pathetic performance? 0-60MPH in under 10sec for the example given, thats as fast as a commodore or falcon. Not too mention their are a quite a few examples of hideously fast electric vehicles. try 0-100km/h in 0.9sec, find me a gas guzzler that can do that?

  • No, Nuclear is not the cheapest form of power. They cost a fortune to build and even more to decommission. Its not reliable either due to the complexity of the equipment , especially safety (3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, windscale et al).

  • Actually Nuclear is cheap, because of its low quantity of consumables and high rate of output, decommisioning one is not necessary except for public opinion, which is often based of the examples you have given, which I might add were due to poor maintainance proceedures.

    However, free energy, which does not consume, or atleast consumes very little, is by far the cheapest cost on the plannet.

    I am all for electric cars, I just wish they were here already, which Is why I am building one.

  • The biggest problem is the waste produced

  • Nobody died as a result of the 3 mile island meltdown. And it was the only one in US history. Better safety record than coal. Chernobyl was the result of Russian nuclear technicians deliberately trying to induce a meltdown with the expectation that they'd be able to halt it. They were wrong. Either way, not a fair example.

    The high cost of building and decommissioning is not an inherent property of the technology, but a result of the heavy fines and regulations imposed by misguided NIMBYs.

  • @Odziz

    Three Mile Island had zero casualties.

  • @Zamboro

    Can't say the same for Chernobyl :(

  • @mynewschannel

    That wasn't one of ours. American nuclear power should not be tarnished by a Russian failure.

  • @ghostjaguar Yer if you want to face a nuclear melt down? Hmm

  • @Odziz How come we can't use nuclear?

  • @christsaves227 "How come we can't use nuclear"? You're kidding right? For one thing, you don't want to turn your balls into little night lights, right? Second, we're having enough trouble with nuclear waste disposal now, how's it going to be with thousands of little nukes running around that will have to dispose of spent fuel at some point. Just think it through, man, think it through. Next you'll be asking 'where the hells our jetpacks already?'

  • @cokie58 you really are out, didnt get the picture yet :-((

  • This design is Awesome!

    I wish I could get one!

  • build one, I am.

  • the governmnet are keeping this secrets

  • If they are keeping this a secret why did it appear on Australian TV ?

  • yeah, good point

    :)

  • This would sell in GB and Europe

  • should of had sound

  • i love it

  • I love this car. I wish it was available commercially. If its pricing would be comparable to the Daihatsu Cuore, and I could recharge on the parking space (or take the battery out and charge it in the office), I'd buy one.

    Cars like these make so much more sense for commuting.

  • fuel efficiency only matters for longer commutes. People that only drive 5 or so miles to work can drive a semi and not worry about fuel. But I like this car. It's cool. If it is cheap I might buy one. And I don't care if it's electric or gasoline. Actually I think I prefer a small gasoline engine givin today's infrastructure and battery technology.

  • People who live just 5 or so miles from work would probably be much better of cycling to work (tip: recumbent cycling rocks!), assuming the infrastructure is suitable for that, like in the Netherlands.

    Gasonline is no taboo for me either. If they made a very lightweight gasoline vehicle with low rolling resistance and good aerodynamics, I'd consider that too. I hope Volkswagen really commercializes the VW 1L (100 km on just 1 liter of diesel fuel). It's shape is comparable to the Trev btw.

  • looks like a pickle

  • Very cool - what the Sparrow would have looked like if done well (or the Merlin if the company hadn't gone belly up).

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