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Jun 2, 2016 2:37 AM
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stupidusernamething
Just need a trailer hitch so you can haul behind you and stay charged up.
0fficerDoofy
Lololol
Makinbrosmadonimgurandnotgivingafuck
Note to self: Buy electric powered generator. I'm a jeanyus.
ThatChickWho
Or, you know, a couple gallons in a generator to fully charge is still less fuel than a full tank of gas?
BANANAFLAKE
Where I live we get 98% of our electricity from burning coal. So everyone driving purely electric cars don't change anything.
squishybaker
not really irony as the chevy volt, has a built in generator to charge the batteries and it uses less fuel.
FreelanceSpermDonor
*Stupidity
cyno01
This is actually still more efficient that a regular engine, since the generator doesnt have to shift gears it can run at peak 100% time.
Clemptor
Let's not forget the batteries don't just evaporate when they die.
hippy80
Actually it's far more efficient to burn fuel in a portable generator to charge the electric system in the car than burn the fuel in the car
GenesisMachines
Only in stop-start traffic would you see a saving from not hauling the engine block around.
Squossifrage
VTEC YO!
SimeonCa
You don't charge a Prius. Also most locomotives have diesel engines turning generators to power electric motors and they are super efficient
SFCrawNik
Now watch them cause a wreck and not use their turn signal!
DioDioDioDioDioDioDio
Irony
WildFayah
Yeah, it's like rain on your wedding day.
muhvitus
This picture makes no sense at all.
Paul567
Most electricity in the US is generated by burning fossil fuels. Keep that in mind when you think you are saving the world with a Prius.
SciGuy
Power plants don't have space or noise constraints, among others. ICEs are horribly inefficient.
Paul567
If you are going to burn oil or coal, a power plant is the best way to do it. But your electricity will still have a carbon footprint.
SciGuy
It's the opportunity cost that matter, though - and in that, electric cars are a net positive. Besides, we can use nuclear or whatever.
applebeesburgerbizarre2
Well the majority of the energy that used to charge these comes from fossil fuels anyway
applebeesburgerbizarre2
I know large scale efficiency blah blah blah
SisuNation
Do people not realize that even when you plug into a regular outlet you are still (often not always) burning fossil fuels for that energy
SciGuy
Power plants don't have space or noise constraints, among others. ICEs are horribly inefficient.
HereThereWhere
Irony? Aren't these objects pictured mostly made of plastic and aluminum?
scotskies
Honda is Japanese for Farmer.
RedDK42
Where on earth did you hear that? "Farmer" in Japanese would be "Nouka" or "Hyakushou"
scotskies
2/ closest in meaning in English. He looked into changing his name.
scotskies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_(surname) written: 本田 lit. "root field" or "origin field". My neighbour, Mr Honda told me farmer was 1/
RedDK42
Ah, yeah if you go by the literal meaning of the kanji in a Japanese name. Rare to actually read a surname like that though. Kinda like 1/
RedDK42
reading the English last name "Smith" as someone who works with metal. Is it the proper etymology of the name? Yes. But I understand now.
SuperDork42
Not quite as good as charging at home but maybe this is a road trip and there wasn't a charging station in range. WE NEED INFRASTRUCTURE!
Spadey
Irony
zcman91
It's free energy!
MisanthropicAnthropoid
Prius is a Hybrid so this doesn't even make sense.
bkbkbk
That's an electric model (or prototype). That's how they got the green CA HOV access sticker.
MisanthropicAnthropoid
Thanks.
Beelsebooob
Green means plug in hybrid, White means fully electric.
cdlong
Standard plug in gets a green sticker.
cdlong
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/carpool/carpool.htm#vehicles
repealthethirteenth
The fact that producing the NiMH batteries in the Prius causes 10 times more sulfur oxide emissions than normal, is pretty hilarious too.
0fficerDoofy
Lololol!
Scientificevidence
Good thing production and durability has improved significantly over the past decade, and you can filter those emissions... in the factory.
chloramphenicolderivative
Yeah sulfurous gasses can be treated with chalk to give gypsum as a usable byproduct.
ATimeTravellingRobotFromTheFuture
I seem to recall that being disproven.
repealthethirteenth
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/does-hybrid-car-production-waste-offset-hybrid-benefits1.htm
DesertAndDessert
Toyota and Ford both use li-ion batteries in there plugins, not NiMH. Presumably everyone does. And I cant find that 10x documented ANYWHERE
repealthethirteenth
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/does-hybrid-car-production-waste-offset-hybrid-benefits1.htm
DesertAndDessert
"lightweight vehicles can sometimes be more energy-intensive to build than heavier cars" HARDLY the point you tried to make. Not even close.
repealthethirteenth
"higher sulfur oxide emissions, roughly 22 pounds (10 kilograms) per hybrid" is EXACTLY the point I'm trying to make, please read.
DesertAndDessert
That number is strictly the initial investment for creating a battery. Duh, there's lots more battery! It completely ignores exhaust of ICE
Samoht
Without efficiency comparisons I can't judge it on it's irony.
WhatTheHellAreYouTryingToTellMe
Ironically, writing irony 3 times actually reverses your irony and makes it "Unironic". Weird phenomenon.
XenoHorse
No, writing irony twice makes it unironic. Writing it 3 times makes it ironic again.
YouSufferWithCognitiveDissonance
Just in case we didn't see it the first two times
stratus41298
Not for nothing but perhaps this was an emergency, or they forgot to charge the night before...
grammarfairy
Or they needed to make a ling trip. The plugins only make it so far on one charge.
Menasyng
God damn it, Ling Ling. You and your trips.
cdlong
...and then the gas engine kicks in. It's a Prius not a a Leaf or Tesla.
stratus41298
I think that's the prius C though.
cdlong
It's not, the C has a hatch rear, this is a standard Prius. The C has a gas engine as well anyway.
Merlin1179
Maybe they don't give two fucks about the environment, but don't want to pay $1.20 per litre for regular. Don't assume things.
StealTow
you're assuming they didn't pay for the gas in the generator. You are what you hate.
smaug777000
...but they're paying for gas now by using the generator... I feel like I'm missing something here
TheRealJeffLebowski
That's why my dad bought a hybrid. He could care less about going green he just wants to save money on gas.
Duskz
I think you need to look up the efficiency of gas to electric conversion. Hint - it's atrociously inefficient.
woodenrobot
I pay 1.50 now.
Bubblytoad
I'd pay $1.20! It'a $2.03 where I live :(
DroolingYeastman
Europe?
Bubblytoad
New Zealand :)
MassBronkey
It's $1.70 in NZ atm...
mccreep453453
paid 2$/L the other day :(
VikingbeardVonhipsterstache
It's $1.98nzd here in Christchurch
Hurrie
It always makes my day when little NZ is mentioned on imgur. Thank you Sir!
Hurrie
Or Madam!!
VikingbeardVonhipsterstache
Or Mayonnaise...
CapnWahle
The fuck. You used freedom bucks and then ... metric?
Merlin1179
Canadian dollars. It's about a buck or a buck-twenty a litre here usually.
thundercactus
Hit a real low last year. Never thought I'd see gas at .77/L and think "Man, that's really shitty"
wolflegend9
Honest curiosity on my part as an American. In pics I've noticed prices are put up in cents such as 129.9 per liter. Do you know the reason?
Merlin1179
Goes back to when gas was under $1. So posting 65.9 per litre made sense. Looks silly now, they should probably drop the tenths.
wolflegend9
That makes perfect sense to me. I appreciate the response. I agree about the tenths thing. I wished we get rid of the penny like y'all did.
bundleofwoodensticks
Stop saying liter! It scares us.
lilburd
1.20 a liter jesus that's expensive thats like 4.50 a gallon
stratus41298
Just got back from canada, can confirm.
thehandsomedoctor
I would kill the population of a small town to pay 1,20€/l for gas. Here it's 1,6-1,9
briedis
I'm in crete, Greece right now and it's 6.59$ a gallon
Snopony
It was around a $1.70 a litre in aus a few months ago ;_;
27yoUGLYvirgin
I think you are missing the point. Why get an electric car if you use gas.
27yoUGLYvirgin
Which is like 1.3 Euros.
NorwegianVikingPower
upwards of 1.6-1.7 per liter here in norway, depends on the location and day of the week ofc
uhrenpapst
I guess that's a bargain in most of westeurope.
Merlin1179
Because we pull crude of the ground in Alberta, ship it thousands of miles to be refined in the states and then buy gas back. Stupid.
lilburd
I mean I heard Canada's currency is kinda going down the toilet that might also do it
27yoUGLYvirgin
That shouldn't matter. Canada has a fuckload of oil, their currency shouldn't play into this, they should be able to use their own oil.
imgurandchill
That is in fact true. I call it the North American rupee now.
DefunkMyJunk
€1.2 is pretty cheap for gasoline in Belgium
Velexis
It's around 1.3 Euro in Demark (9.5-10.5 dkk) where I live
PitbullsPublicist
and we dutch people love you for that, Poppel Raak Benzinestation \o/ everytime i go from utrecht to tilburg >D
exitparadise
I paid like 26 hrivna (0.93 euro) in Ukraine yesterday. And that was for the primo stuff.
biolologist
I imagine most people in Belgium don't have hundred kilometer commutes like in countries like the US.
DefunkMyJunk
I bet the commutes take at least as much time. It really sucks to drive in rush hour
biolologist
At least you have public transit in most EU countries. For a daily 60mi commute I have there is no public transit at all.
IHaveAPhrasalUserNameLikeThisOneCauseTheyAlwaysGetTheTopComment
Having to travel 100km by car every day sounds insane to me.
ryanschultz
You have no idea how fucking BIG the U.S. is lol. Like I live in Oklahoma which is the MIDDLE and to drive to Los Angeles, CA is like...