"Ted Mittelstaedt" > wrote in message
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>
> "Nomen Nescio" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Hybrids are heavier than ordinary models. Energy requirements are
>> inversely proportional to weight, no matter how tricked out the
> powerplants
>> are.
>>
>> A better approach is to go with conventional diesel or gasoline engines
>> power and greatly reduce vehicle weight.
>
> Wow, Nomen, did you just discover what the rest of us already knew?
>
>>
>> So, how do you trim a car down from 3500 pounds + to 1800? Easy. You
>> use
>> light weight materials like aluminum and carbon fibre, using mass
>> production manufacturing methods to keep the cost competetive to the cast
>> iron and steel lead sleds now the industry standard.
>>
>
> See http://www.miniusa.com, vehicle weight is 2500 you can buy them now.
>
> If that's too heavy for you then go here http://www.zapworld.com/ and buy
> a
> Smart Car
> as soon as Zap finishes getting regulatory approval to sell them in the
> US.
> Weight is
> 1500
>
>> Car
>> makers, all of them, have a century of shame carried on their shoulders
>> when it comes to building fat cars.
>>
>
> Well, they needed to build all those fat cars to carry around lard-asses
> like yourself.
>
> Ted
>
If they really cared about better mpg performance we would have switched to
direct fuel injection years ago. Better mpg and better performance.

Richard.