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rpanic01 says

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1112106_heres-how-mazdas-hcci-engine-works

Dead on arrival.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/08/19/economist-announces-death-ice-finally/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29
The Economist Announces The Death Of The ICE (Finally)

" For example, when the car is cruising at a consistent speed on the highway or during low-load situations around town"

Good luck! Remember the Cadillac V-8-6-4?

The ice bans are merely political and do not root in any understanding of the matter. Easily reversible. As to the actual performance of this engine, we will see.

Where I live in N. California, the electricity comes from burning natural gas. The best idea was a natural gas Honda Civic but they aren't sold any more, too bad.

The electric car I like is the Chevy Bolt; it's $30,000 and has a 238 mile range. Charging it with 11cent/kilowatt hour electricity will give you a "fuel cost" of 4 cents/mile, which is a lot less than my car buring $4/gallon gasoline in expensive California.

If I lived in S. Florida again I would consider the Bolt because electricity is about 1/3 the price as in N. California, and I don't drive far when I am down there; I don't want to visit Miami Beach or Disney World, etc.

The govt. subsidy is disappearing from the cars pretty soon.

clambo says

Where I live in N. California, the electricity comes from burning natural gas.

Your area sounds like the exception. When I looked at energy figures for California a few years ago, the majority still came from coal/oil.

NuttBoxer says

Your area sounds like the exception. When I looked at energy figures for California a few years ago, the majority still came from coal/oil.

Huh? Coal is about 1%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California

- Natural gas - 50%
- Hydroelectric - 16%
- Nuclear - 15%
- Geothermal - 6%
- Wind/Solar/Biomass/Other - 12%
- Coal - 1%

Nice rant by OP.

Suggest the EV haters test drive a Chevy Bolt, Hyundai Kona, Kia Niro or a Tesla if they can afford one.

My Chevy Bolt is simply the fastest and most fun car I have ever owned. I don't even care about the environmental benefits. I am driving a car that is faster than 95% of the cars on the road, super convenient to charge up in my garage and I am saving over $200 month in gas and maintenance.

I am giving up nothing and gaining loads in terms of performance and cost savings.

We're coming to an interesting fork in the road ahead. On one side we have EV's that have failed in virtually every promise they made back in 2009, when Obama swindled American tax payers. Then gave billions to failed start up green companies. Tesla was one of them. The incentives was supposed to be all about how they would get cheaper after 10 years. But here we are they are still need Subsidies.

Now we're seeing Gas cars getting creative with engines and are getting closer to the 50 mpg mark. They are also chocking the car full of high tech innovations and more sensors that want to communicate information back to the Mother ship. Metro PCS is selling a module you plug into a slot for ten bucks. I guess every car manufacture has provided a standard protocol and socket for it. The current generation of vehicles are starting to see the most advanced stuff in their base model cars. This in turn is making new cars un-affordable for most people. new If this trend continues. I don't see myself buying the next generation of Mazda 3 or what ever new model they may come out with.

Everything has been made a premium for buying a car.

Fuel efficient = Premium $
Economical = Premium $

They are so standard and alike. I'm seeing more Luxury car manufacturers copying Mazda and Hyundai designs.
I saw Alpha Romero Mazda CX-9 the other day at the grocery store parking lot. I parked my wife's car next to it. Got the same curves, the lines, the style the back. All the same.



Every car is a luxury car now.