Not just the cost of replacing batteries, but consider the impact of disposing of them. Was talking with a collision repair guy I know... there is a high percentage of hybrids that get "totaled" due to internal damage when batteries shift in a crash.
Nice choice POKEY! You look like the STI type though. Subaru make a very reliable AWD car. They don't even know how to make a 2wd. I had a 1991 Legacy around the time Subaru was changing their image. Your going to love that car.
I love the WRX, but have no desire for an STi
I love the WRX, but have no desire for an STi, I am having a hard enough time keeping this one at the speed limits!! I just got back from a work trip to Bowling Green KY and averaged 27/29 mpg for the trip "that is plenty good in my opinion." It hauls ass up hills, corners like a sports car, has a very nice comfy ride......... and has awesome torque, I have the 5 speed by the way. There is absolutely no need for hybrids, the technology for getting seriously good gas mileage would be very easy to obtain "if they would just do it"!!!!!
I've worked on quoting and building assembly automation systems for hybrid batteries in the Leaf, Volt, and new Fiat 500 coming out. I don't think I've met a customer manufacturing engineer yet that would buy one. Add the government incentives to the manufactures to build lines for volumes that don't exist, government incentives to the consumer, and then a premium cost still on top of that.......... How does this make sense?
Lithium Ion, car batteries or camera batteries, I have a pretty good idea what they cost, and I can tell you your not going to change your new generation all electric battery for under 5 figures.
And then we can talk about solar panels............
Automotive is doing it for the fleet mileage and government incentives and power companies for green quota requirements.......... all paid by the tax payer.
I should not complain because my company has profited greatly by the "stimulus"; but, the payback for investment can not stand on it's own.
My previous employer of 2 weeks ago "GE" makes me sick about their whole "fake" green campaign. At least it got them a massive tax ride off with BHO.
My previous employer of 2 weeks ago "GE" makes me sick about their whole "fake" green campaign. At least it got them a massive tax ride off with BHO.
From what I've read and seen and been trained on, injuries and electrocutions are not a worry to me from hybrids because they simply do not happen. I've never heard if it happening, if it has, it would be very rare indeed, and most likely connected to something else attributed to the hybrid, I mean, you'd really have to go out of your way to try to get electrocuted. There are of course exceptions.
If you are in an accident the picture changes.
Yes, I'd like to know how one get electrocuted or injured from electricity while in a hybrid in a crash. I'm not being sarcastic, I'd like to know if you got new info cause I'm the guy thats going to be getting you out of them if you do crash.
Thats the info I have too, so nothing new for me. Thanks though.