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Key findings of the report include:

• In 2040, oil and natural gas are expected to make up nearly 60 percent of global supplies, while nuclear and renewables will be approaching 25 percent. Oil will provide one third of the world’s energy in 2040, remaining the No. 1 source of fuel, and natural gas will move into second place.
• North America, which for decades had been an oil importer, is on pace to become a net exporter around 2020.
• India will surpass China as the world’s most populous nation, with 1.6 billion people. The two countries are expected to account for almost half of the growth in global energy demand.
• Global demand for electricity is expected to increase by 65 percent, and 85 percent of the increase is in non-OECD nations.
• The share of the world’s electricity generated by coal is expected to fall to about 30 percent in 2040 from approximately 40 percent in 2014.
• Global energy demand from transportation is projected to rise by about 30 percent,...

Toyota brings Hybrid performance to Corolla

Very entertaining and well-done commercial by Toyota's @Prius Team that aired during the Super Bowl tonight. Great to finally see a Prius ad capture the positive aspects of the car while mixing humor and entertainment.



Toyota later at the conclusion of the game posted a follow-up commercial, with the police unveiling their secret weapon to stop the Prius:

The book “Prescription For The Planet” by Thomas Blees proposes using boron as a fuel for cars. (Chapter 5) After the boron is burned, the resulting boron oxide or rust would be taken to a recycle plant to be reformed into fuel usable boron again. The recycle plants would be powered by Integrated Fast Reactors (IFRs) which are advanced nuclear reactors that, as explained in the book, are much safer than existing nuclear reactors and inexpensive to operate as they use for fuel the spent fuel from existing reactors and excess depleted uranium which our military has a lot of. For boron to burn it needs pure oxygen, so miniaturizing oxygen extractors for cars would be necessary.

According to the book, the best cars would be boron/electric hybrids. With the purchase of the car would come about $200 of boron, which would be recycled over the life of the car costing the equivalent of about twenty five cents per gallon of gas. As explained in the book, this method would create zero...

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But due to an unfortunate hardware failure (cooling fan wore out,) the summaries will take a couple of days. It also gives me time to rework the spreadsheet:

	Model	16_01	15_12	15_11	15_10
1	Prius Liftback	6333	10153	8287	9611
2	Ram Pickup Diesel	3193	4531	3848	4283
3	RAV4	1973	1430	64
4	Prius c	1763	2861	2601	3373
5	Fusion Hybrid	1373	1960	1388	2050
6	Model S	1300		3100	2100
7	Camry Hybrid	1256	1861	1964	2545
8	Prius v (lowercase v)	1205	2040	1643	2128
9	Volt	996	2114	1980	2035
10	Sonata	964	1138	931	1342
11	RX 400 / 450 h	790	1493	958	514
12	Leaf	755	1347	1054	1238
13	C-Max Hybrid	637	837	815	912
14	CT200h	622	1464	984	1077
15	ES Hybrid	622	1443	833	895
16	Avalon Hybrid	583	933	798	993
17	Fusion Energi	581	1058	944	849
18	MKZ	491	867	676	646
19	Optima Hybrid	469	870	844	1262
20	Model X	400	177	15	10
21	Highlander Hybrid	375	516	318	375
22	Range Rover	366	387	283
23	C-Max Energi	350	579	639	695...

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Should I sell my c now?

Source: Kia's Telluride Concept Merges Great Looks With New-Age Horseshit


Jason Torchinsky is rapidly becoming my favorite auto-reporter. He had the good sense to record on cell-phone video, a maximum acceleration test of the 2016 Prius at the November 8 event. A brilliant hack, it remains one of the earliest, 3d party, hard data points we've gotten about the 2016 Prius.

Bob Wilson

Pretty interesting, and not surprising to most folks on this site that hybrids will save on gas and need less repairs than most gas only cars.

Now I wonder if they'll also use plug-in hybrids to lower costs even further.

Hybrid Police Cars Replacing Crown Vics: No Longer An Anomaly

Neat!

On this week's show:

• Douchebag is douchey
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  and their main site:
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• Why does every FCV cost $500 a month?
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• Trouble in Apple car paradise
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• Chief of Titan leaving Apple
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Part of Ward's Automotive, these folks in the past tried to push "clean diesels" over hybrids and plug-ins. But VW shut that down. Now these hybrid skeptics seem to have 'gotten religion' which is why this podcast / video is important:



Sorry, no transcript. It starts out slow but as they talk, you can see the cogs in their minds turning to a new paradyne. For example, the 'no car days' because of NOx finally made them realize there is a harm to not only diesel but conventional cars too. Towards the end, they also realized the importance of the Pacifica, the first North American, hybrid miniVan.

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In the news, regarding lithium-ion battery performance in the cold, quickly heating them:

Battery for electric cars self-heats when it's freezing - Futurity

The VW saga continues… California rejects proposed “solution” http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1101854_california-rejects-vw-diesel-fix-plan-gaps-lacks-detail?fbfanpage Honda and GM to fuel cell plants http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1101933_honda-gm-to-build-factory-for-fuel-cell-production-by-2025 An unanswerable but very important question, why is oil so cheap? http://ourfiniteworld.com/2016/01/19/why-oil-under-30-per-barrel-is-a-major-problem/

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A silver lining in every dark cloud?

Story is short and please listen to the very end for the hybrid part:
Truck Sale Profits Help Automakers Develop Future Technologies : NPR

Edit: transcript has been posted

There's some stir in the news on this. Just one link, there's quite a few.

Cobalt mined with child labour used by Apple, Samsung, Sony & others, Amnesty International says - Business - CBC News

Not sure if this is the right forum, but I need to share the new Toyota Prius ad that is embarrassingly Japanese... Toyota humanized each parts of new Prius into anime girls. Cannot believe Toyota did this.



http://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/1601/18/news124.html

Ever burnt a piece of steel wool? And more slowly, rusting, oxidation, is a slow variation of the same process. Here's a CBC Quirks and Quarks podcast on using iron as alternate fuel:

Alternative Energy Enters the Iron Age - Home | Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald | CBC Radio

Our man, Mark, talks to Chevy about the Bolt battery.

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