> Zapman wrote: > yeah, I've thought about that jetta sportwagon, but being in dallas > and watching my diesel trucks mileage decrease dramatically in > traffic, I'm thinking that the prius would be more efficient. Now, if > only they would marry the sportwagon tdi with a hybrid system. > >
I've read that the 2.0 TDI is engineered to avoid this problem and apparently is already doing so in the Audi A4 application in Europe. The 3.0 TDI does suffer from some city drop-off as the word on the street goes. On hybrids - overall, I just can't understand how running 2 engines would ever be more efficient than one, and one that already exists and is capable of relatively high mileage. The argument goes, of course, that you're capturing energy with batteries that would normally be lost, but this captured energy is such a small percentage of energy used I can't believe that it would ever be "carbon-neutral" when you take into account all of the design, manufacture, and disposal of the technology and batteries. And if you go completely electric then you still have to get the energy from someplace which, at least for the next 10 years or so is going to coal (investment tip: peabody) So, for me, Hybrids seem like a red herring: something that sounds good, seems to make sense, but when you look at the numbers doesn't. But I'm open to arguments! In fact I think you had me convinced about a year ago ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247471 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
