I once saw a Prius with a Scott Walker sticker on it. I about had a heart attack. I guess if you were closed minded that makes me closed too. Good to see livefree owns a Prius. Maybe we can both open our minds a little. LOL

Just to be clear, I am like you - I assume the same thing about Prius drivers. And they usually have some kind of dorky bumper sticker that confirms it. I'm guessing, but I think when people see my ham radio antennas and aggressive driving style, they figure I'm someone who does things for himself instead of someone who expects other people to do it for me.

I should be more open minded. I have to say that working in a small town I am surprised how many people drive big SUVs. The Prius drivers have no trouble parking and getting around.

I thought about that fact when I was thinking of buying the Prius that I currently drive. I like the car a lot, and I've put 30,000+ miles on it during the first year, and I am very happy with it. But whenever I pass another Prius on the road, I still think to myself "F***ing Prius driver!" Maybe I am a bigot after all.

But if they really really tried isn't that good enough? I hope no one gets their feelings hurt.

But it gets 1000 MPG. That's adjusted for various factors of coarse. Actual may be closer to 15 MPG.

Good point, but it would still be sideways. :)

Puleeze.
A car designed by using common core math would never look that good. It most likely have a paint job applied with a brush, and glass so safe that it was opaque.

This kind of reminds me of an Isetta on steroids.

The CC math teacher would fail them, as there are an even number of tires, and they're all relatively parallel to one another - apparently the engineers didn't use enough "it's about that much" math...

I think it just goes in circles.

The power (VOLT) to the motor comes from either the battery or the generator. The Volt is an electric car with a generator to keep the battery charged on long trips.

From what I read recently, the engine can also drive mechanically to the wheels with some sort of clutch system, as well as driving the car through its generator to a separate motor from the battery drive motor. Very complex. I got that from Wikipedia I think.

I hope this never leaves the drawing board and they shoot whoever designed it!

Agree, although Prius really has 2x 0.5 modes of propulsion, not 2x 1.0. I also think the Prius drives like a wheelbarrow, with pathetic skinny tires and cabin noise all over. The Volt drives like a real car. Not sure if new Prius's are better. I drove one as a rental a couple of times.

The Prius is a parallel hybrid, combining the torque of the engine and motor in a semi-complicated gear (with a generator in the mix too). The Volt is a series hybrid, with only the motor providing torque to the wheels. The power to the motor comes from either the battery or the generator. The Volt is an electric car with a generator to keep the battery charged on long trips.
Agree that neither is necessary, and incentives are inappropriate, but if you live in a city with lots of stop/go or close to work, you can save a lot of $ by plugging in each night, and not using gas. At $2/gal this is a lot less interesting than at $4/gal, but we will be at $4/gal again soon enough.

maybe they are in installments. like the "tax credit" for the electric cars! you get charged that money back over time...

does it drive sideways too? :)

That was the original plan but they didn't want any of the tires to feel inferior so they put them all on the ground.

With government subsidies it's only $9.95 but WAIT! If you order right now we will send you a second one absolutely FREE. Just pay ridiculously high taxes.

I can tell you that when the VOLT came out, I thought it was a totally electric car which would strand you after 40 miles of driving (that seemed ridiculously inadequate). Then I read some time later it had a small engine that ran a generator so it could go farther than 40 miles. It wasnt until a friend recently bought one and he showed me that it is really pretty well designed and is unlikely to strand you somewhere when the supply of electrons was diminished. GM hasnt advertised and promoted it very well in my opinion.

On the other hand the prius was advertised well in that it had two modes of propulsion right from the start, and it switched between them continually in response to some sort of computer control. I understood that right from the get go. I even drove one, and although it was OK, I didnt really get the need for the electric part, and its cost was prohibitive.

Calculate it in Common Core Math and it's probably about $100,000! hehe

Love it!! I am amazed all four wheels are on the ground; My Common Core figures say one should be on the roof and one should be mounted to the windshield. hmmm...maybe I should add a few more columns on my stack of paper?

Quite right about subsidies, but they are equal Volt-to-Prius, and don't account for the sales difference.
More fools, and if they really did care about carbon emissions (I don't) or oil independence (I do), they'd run SVO/WVO in a diesel.

True enough about the subsidies. That is a "par" issue Volt-to-Prius. That was sort of the point about the introductory note ("aside from being unnecessary"), although I was really thinking about he unsupported concept of carbon reduction.

Funny!

Math seems pretty straight forward. Not sure how the UN could screw it up but they found a way.