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A pathetic act to call the i3 ugly. Go see it in person! I was very lucky to see one in Amsterdam earlier this week. I spotted one on a far side of a junction for a brief 5 or 10 seconds. Believe me, it's bloody gorgeous. It's sharp and looks nothing like it does on videos or pictures where even in this, the i3 looks bloated and much too oddly proportioned. It's a car to see in person, and those of many who deem it as horrid only give the reasons that it's electric, therefore ugly and not a BMW. While the truth is they haven't seen one in front of them, which obviously not a lot of people have.
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1800 meters? I've never heard that before. What happened to the 1/4 mile? It does make sense for supercars that can far ecceed 160, 170 or 180mph and given the chance to do so, but it's a massive burden for a car with one gear and limited to 130mph. The outcome would certinally differ with the P85D, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.
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That really makes me have doubts about this video. In Europe, the i3 REx can hold its range. They could've thrashed it with a 75 miles left in the charge, but 6?! That's careless at the least!
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0:24 oh yes, there are plenty 🎩🔫
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+Del Johnson Renault makes electric cars, and they did just fine with them for years! Haha!
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Jaye Oliver O'Farrell-Stevens Yeah, I don't think so. The advantages being able to fill up in 5 minutes? Compared for an EV, where a quick charge is usually less than 20 minutes, a coffee break basically, and its infrastructure becoming widespread, unfortunately going unnoticed. Why is everyone so impatient. There are so many wishers for Hydrogen, the biggest ones being the suppliers of Hydrogen, like Shell, that's not exactly progress now is it? An honest engineer without a bias would question hydrogen at his moment. An engineer would be interested in optimising efficiency. Hydrogen is vastly inefficient compared to just plugging in from the wall. Refining Hydrogen from hydrocarbons (steaming natural gas or through a reformer) is honestly the most effective way of extraction for mass production. Hydrogen must be pressurised quite a lot at 70MPa into the car, but also a to more at the tank in the fuelling station, that's costs a lot of electricity. At the end, you'll then have to convert the Hydrogen back into electricity through the fuel cell that operates at 40-50% efficiency, much higher than a diesel's best example of 30%, but not as much as a battery electric car's of 85 - 95%. All of this, and the 2 year old guess for $50,000, because no one can wait 15 minute Rapid Charge at a service station all along the UK's motorways (which is as long as filling up a car and questing in line to pay for it), or a 2 hour charge every night which happens to be the average for an EV? Is everyone that impatient, or does everyone still shake their heads stubbornly and refuse to attempt to understand electric cars? Be honest please. Yes, the idea of water out of the exhaust is very passionate and poetic, but is that the deciding factor? The idea of powering your own home which electric cars can already achieve in Japan? I'm sorry, but this is what car makers do all the time. Hydrogen is honestly a PR tool for them, the idea of having Hydrogen cars limited in the hundreds of examples is great for stocks, that's it. If anything, Hydrogen is best suited for sea vessels and locomotives if electrification isn't optional. It's a shame that no manufacturer has bothered to show interest in ships. Hydrogen is currently ready for cargo ships, but not for road vehicles, not when electrics and plug-in hybrids are just two years and already beginning their prime with established and growing markets and growing infrastructure. I just see hydrogen as incredibly hype-driven but half hearted in the face of it all. If you have anything to object to, I'd be happy enough to answer it.
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Ahldor Wow, did he or she actually resorted to that. Bit rude, just an attempt to make your arguments invalid because you have a supposed fragile ego? At least you backed up your statements. Poor dude, just gave up. Just chalked up buts and rants with no evidence.
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Hello fellow Atheist, just stop man. If you go to places like New York, Paris or even Dublin, if you find a taxi-Prius and ask the driver how much miles or km it done. I've done so, and I was told that it ran nearly 350,000km without any battery change. Unfortunately, Toyota charges a fortune on new batteries for around €4000, while getting your own easily off the self or from a scrapyard can be less than €500. You can even refurbish it. BTW there's an 8 year 100,000km warranty for the battery.
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Have you tried the LEAF. It's pretty much one of their popular cars in the UK that you missed out.
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***** Before I end it here. Great Job! Dehumanise me because of the username. I'm sorry, but I don't drive one at the moment. I like it, I like its iconic interior and exterior, I like how its drivetrain works. I like cars a lot and I like a lot of cars across the spectrum, odd or different cars especially. I'm a big enthusiast in EVs and classics. If you think you can use a name as a resource to denounce me and refer to me as "easily fooled", "deliberately slow", "Nazi", then how does that light reflect off you? That you spin off track from a debate and call names? So be it, be rude and ontop, foolish. FCEVs are simply unviable globally due to an actual non-existent infrastructure that took several decades for petrol and diesel, of which was also expensive and I've recently learnt has not gained the backing of oil suppliers. There's the still high price for compact fuel cells at $1 per Watt. Toyota's, Honda's and Hyundai's concepts will only be compliance cars for California. I hope you know what compliance cars are in the first place and how the likes of Toyota and Honda have an opinion on them. This is all PR for those three! I leave it here at that as you supposedly resigned from this previously. So sod off with you.
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Ahldor I've seen quite some stubbornness in my time but when I see someone calling others nerds behind bullies and insecure when things start to get repetitive. I emphasize. Magic batteries? Bit desperate. What's he on about? I remember that batteries are reducing in price by 8% per year. That's why 2013 saw EV prices reduce on an average of 15%, that's why LEAF sales tripled in the US in 2013 and why Plug-In sales almost doubled in 2013 compared to 2012 and tripled in 2012 compared to 2011. Nissan will expect to sell at least 30,000 units of the LEAF in the US in 2014 now that lack of materials to build batteries have been solved to keep up with demand. I've heard that Mitsubishi is doing well too, Outlander PHEV is suffering with excessive demand in Japan and Europe, thus US release is delayed and the 2014 i-MiEV is now one of the cheapest cars in the US. Then there's Tesla, they're always doing well. Then there's a couple of countries that have EVs as top sellers. Oh, I can name a lot more, but I haven't heard much news of Honda's CFX Clarity, oh, and that's been here for some time. Ah, I think you should tell little him that Hydrogen cars will only be compliance cars for California so Toyota and Honda can still sell their ordinary cars. Just like the limited production RAV4 EV and Fit EV that Toyota and honda had to sell by law over 3 years. They will replace them with Hydrogen cars as they have to by law and of which will only put them on leases when RAV4 EV and Fit EV 3 year leases are expired in 2015.
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***** Haha. That was great, I could almost give that a thumbs up! But speaking about hypocrisy, yeah... Remember how you disrespected my answers when you said that suddenly I'm "Driving a Prius only tells the rest of the forum that you are [I am] easily fooled" just because of the name of my account. That's definitely a tactic for alienation, denouncing and disrespecting my answer because you disagreed but didn't have a valid answer to disagree with. Remember how you said that you weren't " conversing with you[me] in the first place" even though you responded to me, albeit a month ago. How about stop insulting at others, demonising others, while behaving like the victim. Your arguments were invalid and Ahldor will agree swimmingly too. You've got no knowledge on EVs or what was happening over the past 5 years, thus it's understandable why you thought Hydrogen is superior. It's just ignorance, simple as. You said it was superior to EVs because you didn't know or type out one fact for EVs to compare what you knew about FCEVs. You just said in every argument, "No It's Not" without evidence. So without evidence, you just went if a huff calling others hypocritical, fanboy, Nazi, wimpy kid, child, slow, etc. Perhaps, describing oneself a bit? Well... Look at that
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Chris Till Sure, the EV game has changed roughly on average every 18 months now. It won't be long until we'll start seeing 120 mile range city cars on sale at or below the 20,000 threshold Just wait and see!
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Chris Till sorry, a whole paragraph was missing. Quick commenting on a phone sucks hard. Although, a lower price and a wider presence in all types is still in great need to really get us where we need. So far the average person is depending on second hand cars (where price rebates help "depreciate" the car for resale). But that pool is only so big. Unfortunately I see no one making or talking about a 2.0 gen eUp, iMiEV or Twizy. We should be at that stage by now.
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The rear of the Coupe MX5 really reminds me of the Mazda Xedos 6! Ah, memories.
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If any of you guys thought this was rather shameful, have a gander at the [SPONSORED] VW Beetle Cabriolet video. That seemed a bit more boastful than this, I thought it was an ad more than a review. Anyway, I know this car fairly well in and out and I heard all that I know. Nothing unexpected really. There wasn't that much boasting other than the price but they're comparing it to their own diesel. Although, the one thing that was forgotten was that the Outlander PHEV is not equipped with 3rd row seating which is a touted selling point for the standard Outlander which has it as standard.
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I was really surprised, then sceptical of that woeful start on the Model S' part. One would say that electric cars need no skill to drag in, but the speed of every launch is totally dependant on human reaction. Insane mode or no Insane mode. Any of us can be too late to hit the accelerator or too late to lift off the brake in a few mere tenths of a second, which can make all of the difference. If the Model S had a launch control (which could be added in a new computer update) or the driver was far more familiar with the car or there was some communication between the two drivers, the Model S would certainly take the lead by some margin, but would still end up second. The P85D doesn't not pull as well at higher speeds.
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Oil mainly. Usually by a Catalytic reformer of an oil refinery, which turns hydrocarbons into hydrogen, octane molecules with CO2 being the sole waste product. Hydrogen is everywhere but close to impossible to find on its own.
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I agree, but cost is not worthy to compare a car (e.g) DS5 to an XJR. They're not compatible! Instead of price, size, performance and interior features/luxury play in factor of what makes a car's competitors. While a city car BMW claims, VW fairly wrongly says that their electric Up! (e-Up!) competes! An i-MiEV can give VW a run for its money. BMW i3's biggest competitor is the Mercedes B-Class ED, less so are the Focus EV, top specs of the LEAF, Volt and e-Golf and possibly the Cadillac ELR.
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@McDaniel77 A Toyota is not a VW, Toyota would never use another manufacturer's engine and VW the same. But car manufacturers can have an agreements like the Toyota Aygo, Citroen C1 and Peugeot 107 they're the same cars and have the same engines to reduce costs ect...
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I think you should make a little update on that. It's cheaper now to the point that it's affordable, so are its EV competitors of which there are more of.
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I would like to just say this briefly. The rear and rear hear lamps of the Monza look like it has the front headlights and accents of a Citroen DS5 and that the front grill and front headlights are derived from the new Mazda 6 or 3.
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Just to point out, since the Leaf was a second slower to 60mph, it strikes me how it was half a second slower in the 1/4 mile. The Leaf, and especially EVs as a whole should perform very well from a standing start which is why I'd like to see some 0-30mph figures, but the Leaf usually runs out of acceleration dramatically after 40 - 50 mph. Since the 240Z had got a perfect jump start, it's really unlikely to me how the Leaf caught up on higher speeds. Does anyone know how the 270Z performs?
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Hon the French!
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I liked this, but a bit unfair. It would make sense if the 240Z was up against the 370Z, but we'll know how that will easily turn out. From looking at the other mashups, like how different generations of Golf GTIs, Astras and BMW 3 series, it was basically old vs. new. Comparing a 240Z to a Leaf doesn't count, they're both two completely different cars with different purposes, history, etc. And the Leaf wouldn't be possible to be compared to anything either.
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With 4 motors and that 125 mile range will not last long, if this is going to be mass produced and to be an electric sports car, it must be compared similarly to the Tesla Roadster, especially the range of the car.
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The first round when the mini won, it was picked just because it's British apart that the public still doesn't know that it's German.
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@adriannippy No, I would like it more if it was British or even more compact.
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