EcoTech-RMI & Efficient Cars

Segment on Amory Lovins and RMI's approach to automotive efficiency. Design the car to use less fuel!

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People & Blogs

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• Rocky Mountain Institute
• Hypercar
• Amory
• Lovins
• efficiency
• automotive
• green
• carbon
• fiber
• lightweight
• lightweighting

[fargonebewdy]

Power to weight ratio is always the decider in drag racing and easily understood. What is much less understandable is why Amory Lovins always equates "nuclear" with the super-tox uranium fuel cycle. The solution to cheap safe energy is the safe melt-down proof THORIUM LFTR REACTOR -only a 200 year storage period on the non-plutonium waste. No bombs!

Vested interests in Uranium and Bombs - that's whats fucking us up. Why isn't Amory agitating for the Thorium fuel cycle development HUH? HUH???

[Maglevspiritualgeek]

OMG I want this car so bad!!!

[movewithtao]

@tzbnks

car coops are starting to tackle that one. We have a great one in Vancouver, BC: cooperative auto network. I pay $2.50 an hour and $20c per km. That includes gas, insurance and repairs. They're getting a few electric cars soon to test and if all goes well electric cars will make up their fleet in a few years.

[violafinishda]

Free energy technology exists!But the Big corporations spend millions to ensure that information does not spread to the masses,Get a motor that needs no gas or electric input at LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM ,Big change is comming soon!

[tcseeme]

@AkinaGod The car -or whatever vehicle- does need to go somewhere if the person wants to get where he's going faster than human power could get him there. I only mentioned smart car because of its weight. It's a tiny little car but still weighs 1600 pounds. Much heavier than a person that weighs 150 pounds. Anyway, I just thought it was funny, he kept talking about moving the driver. If that's all you want to do, forget gas. What about some roller skates? Maybe a rickshaw? :D

[AkinaGod]

@tcseeme Europe has a 180 horse power jaguar that gets over 50 mpg with 4 passengers, a/c ON, big trunk, and luxery interior. That amazing considering that car weighs over 3500 lbs.

[AkinaGod]

@tcseeme Yea but a smart car isn't very smart. I mean think about it. It only seats two people, has no trunk, and with that weight the best fuel mileage you can get out of an american version is only around 43 - 45 with gas saving technique driving. But back on moving the person, the reason he says that is because ultimately the purpose of it is for transportation. The car doesn't really need to go anywhere. The person does. And people are actually pretty heavy. average is around 150 lbs.

[tcseeme]

@AkinaGod I understand it. I just think it's silly to talk about "moving the driver" when the driver is the lightest thing that has to be moved. In order to "move the driver" you need to move the car which is much heavier than the driver. Even a smart car weighs 1609 pounds.

[AkinaGod]

@tcseeme He does, you just didn't understand how he said it.

[AkinaGod]

@tzbnks Believe it or not but you could achieve similar numbers by converting what you already have. It won't be a sports car like the Tesla. But it will still run for a few hundred miles before needing a recharge. Often times you would actually gain money too depending on the car you have and how you go about parting it out, ie, getting rid fo engine, gas parts, etc.