Since a few companies are talking about releasing hybrid sportscars what do you want in a hybrid sportscar ?
I can't really choose the poll items because it leaves out too many variables. I don't really want more cars I want better public transportation BUT if I am chosing a car.... You sure I can't just choose all electric? 1. Diesel hybrid. 2. 2+2 seating 3. large capacity battery/plug-in technology 4. lightweight body (like Fiberforge material) 2000lbs would be sweet. 5. 300fwhp turbocharged with efficiency mode to soften fuel maps and reduce quick spool up of the turbo. 6. Low coefficient drag 7. 70+mpg
I'm with galaxee . . . I don't WANT another hybrid. The sports car I would buy would have to be all electric and get a couple hundred miles per charge.
electric cars can be cool but they only maximize enviro friendliness when your local powerplant is a nuke, solar, geothermal, or hyrdo an electric car running off a coal or oil fired energy plant is really not terribly enviro friendly as it merely relocates your exhaust emissions to the powerplant instead of your car
We've went over this before. It is still more enviro-friendly than a gas only car. Coal-fired plants are admitedly worse than using a solar array for power but better than using gasoline for power. Hydro is not very enviro-friendly either. Everyone that wants a full electric car either has solar panels or plans on installing them so it's non-issue. Being more environmentally friendly than a normal gas vehicle no matter where the power comes from AND the fact the majority of people would be powering off of solar by the time they were mass produced for the public makes it a better solution than just a hybrid.
I want a human-electric hybrid. A fully streamlined, front-wheel-drive recumbent two-wheeler with batteries or capacitors, and regenerative brakes. And the same speed limits as other vehicles, not 30kmh for electric bicycles. If I'm to fit this choice into the poll questions, I'll have to say: mid-engine (gotta sit between the wheels somehow) single-seat (git yer own) convertible (fully enclosed is faster, but too hot) manual (I'd consider automatic, but one on-board computer is probably enough) one horse (named Silver of course) two cylinders (left lung, right lung)
In many parts of the country the power mix is definitely less than 100% coal. The PNW, CA, etc. Here in CO it's about 70% coal, but that number is coming down over time. With the option to by greener energy through many utilities the EV is a cleaner option than even hybrids. It also has the potential to be WAY cleaner than hybrids.
Cost no object I'd have a carbon fiber tub, cf body convertible, w an Italian body like this cf Pagani w a either a 3 L V12 hybrid or a full electric w 600hp +
I'll look forward to a hybrid sports car that is not built by a pc committee, special interest group, or activist agenda. Until then, I'll add to my carbon foot print as I have 36,000 trees in my forest that I have to feed with C02 in exchange for my oxygen.
I did not see the choice: "I do not want a sports car, hybrid or otherwise." If I had, that is the response I would have checked.
I think much more important than bucket loads of horsepower in a sports car are, Light weight superb handling fantastic feedback to the driver good acceleration If your building a drag car then the American model of sports car but if you really want a "SPORTS" car you need light weight great handling. A mustang or GTO is not and never has been my idea of a sports car, MG-B Suzuki Cappuccino, Toyota MR2 are real sports cars. Any clown can make a 600hp V8 go fast but to maintain momentum on a twisting mountain pass in a car with little more power than a bicycle takes skill. To this end a 2+2 isn't a sports car, it's a 2 door sedan, V8s are useless in the front of a car, arrows fly straight with weight on the tip, why put all the weight in the front? Mustang and GTO, two door falcon and commodore, boring! I have considered transplanting the drive-train of a Prius into an MR2, a fun car you can blast through the hills and still get 4 to 5L/100km. Also an easy car to live with and drive across town. I'd love electric also but I would also like to drive my sports car on longer journeys and the idea of several hundred kilograms of batteries goes against the design parameters above.
the 2nd gen MR2 was a great looking/handling car You'll need a really good mechanic & computer tech to do this though I'd like to do a carbon fiber bodied Ferrari Testarossa w electric motor & some solar panels on the wide flat rear deck
I am a mechanic and if I use all the original control computers and batteries from a Prius I don't see too many problems with the electronics unless I need to change the wiring loom to locate components. I wouldn't use the MR2 engine.
Sorry Mr. Genius. It was probably hard to tell in type, but that was supposed to come off tongue-in-cheek sarcastic, hence the little smiley face.
