Quote of the Day: Coal-powered car edition
In a discussion of black market light bulbs, a commenter notes that no coal is required to power a Prius. Robb responds:
You are correct.
The electricity fairy shits 110 VAC.
Heh.
Black market light bulbs. Black market toilets. Using “off road” air intakes on cars. Popping flow restrictors off of shower heads. It’s like I woke up in some bad Soviet era novel.
December 29th, 2010 at 11:18 am
Technically he was correct. The Prius is a Hybrid and not an EV.
But it was funny snark nonetheless if I do say so myself.
December 29th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
The Lipidleggers are coming.
http://www.billstclair.com/DoingFreedom/000623/df.0600.fa.lipidleggin.html
December 29th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
I here I had my hopes up you were gonna talk about a car with a coal gasifier unit attached….
December 29th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Alarming how many people are ignorant of how a hybrid works.
December 29th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
Where’s the plugin on a Prius? Ain’t none. But for the ones that have it, it could just as well be a nuke plant, but… yeah right. We’ll be wishing there were enough horses soon.
December 29th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Hmm, I thought there was a plug in prius. Looks like not until 2012.
December 29th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
I can’t comprehend people who would own a post-94 prius out of warranty and not immediately hack it for plug-in use.
Also of note are those plug-in prius owners who ignorantly proclaim that since they make mostly local trips, they’re getting 123 miles per gallon.
December 29th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
D’oh, I mean gen2 2004+ prius ^^
December 29th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
In the Future, we are all Harry Tuttle.
December 29th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
I think that there are kits to convert Prius’ to be plug-in.
December 29th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
“It’s like I woke up in some bad Soviet era novel.”
Uncle, let me fix that for you;
“I woke up in some bad Soviet era novel.”
There.
December 29th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Not ignorant at all. Just confused the hybrid for an EV.
December 30th, 2010 at 9:15 am
The batteries on hybrids (at least the 2006 Prius and 2006 Escape that I am familiar with) don’t have the capacity to make it worthwhile to charge them externally. If you really baby them a full charge will get you about a half mile on the level.