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Originally Posted by ambientweather

I used to be a gas turbine engineer, and we developed hybrid mobile apps for buses and I cringe when I read about battery powered cars.

Where does the power come from to charge your batteries? A power plant. And what is the likely energy source? Natural gas, coal and to a lesser extent, nuclear and hydro. Wait, natural gas and coal are dirty! And transmission and transformer losses make it less efficient than gasoline. And then you have to dispose of hazardous batteries and end of life.

Would you believe that gasoline is better for the environment then battery powered cars?

Now, now AW it's not nice or popular to tell the truth about this most misunderstood hype in the world today. It's only important to play nice in the sandbox and just pony up the extra $6K for that hybrid that you will not keep long enough to recoup the extra expenditure. What's wrong with u!!!