Hybrid Cars, Do you think they're good? |
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Hybrid Cars, Do you think they're good? |
*steve330* |
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I personally think they suck. The production of them puts out more emissions than would have been reduced due to the fact that it's a hybrid. In making the battery, they have to mine the nickel in Canada, ship to england for refining, ship to China for further refining, ship to Japan to be made into the battery, ship to America to be put into the production queue and does w/e from there on out. The quarry where they mine in Canada has had such horrible pollution that all around it, the acid rain's destroyed all vegetation.
Also I did the math and you would have to drive 212,500 miles on a civic hybrid to make it more cost beneficial than a regular civic. This was under the assumption that gas was 3.00 per gallon (which it is in Houston) |
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*Steven* |
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Yeah but if it's on a normal car what's to say it's not on the hybrid. Also when comparing hybrid vs normal, I tend to compare a normal car vs it's hybrid counterpart, i.e. ford escape vs ford escape hybrid.
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![]() I'm Jc ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Mentor Posts: 13,619 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,556 ![]() |
Yeah but if it's on a normal car what's to say it's not on the hybrid. yea i know, i just mean hybrids certainly aren't the only cars that use nickel. but i agree that with the battery they probably use more. i think the batteries use like 50 pounds of nickel or something. |
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