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05-22-2008, 11:08 PM
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Friends: 7 |  Speed Freaks: The 10 fastest green cars Okay, they all are the fastest cars. But maybe "in their class"? Interesting article. The Prius and the Tesla are included, along with some cars I never heard of. Speed Freaks: the 10 fastest green cars on the planet. |
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05-22-2008, 11:33 PM
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Friends: 0 | Re: Speed Freaks: The 10 fastest green cars i'll take a tesla |
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05-22-2008, 11:42 PM
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Friends: 4 | Re: Speed Freaks: The 10 fastest green cars Yeah, But the coolest car in there is that Ford Fusion Hydrogen powered car.  |
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05-23-2008, 06:06 AM
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Friends: 0 | Re: Speed Freaks: The 10 fastest green cars it says top speed of prius is 130.8...is that really true i thought it was like 110 |
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Friends: 2 | Re: Speed Freaks: The 10 fastest green cars Quote:
"Toyota's own Landspeed Prius cracked the hybrid speed record on a run at Bonneville. Starting with the car's stock Hybrid Synergy Drive system -- a 1.5-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine and 50 kw permanent-magnet electric motor -- the Toyota team gave the transmission a taller final-drive ratio and beefed up the inverter charge from 500 to 550 volts. With lowered suspension, roll cage and moon-disked wheels, the 130-mph Landspeed Prius looks, dare we say, almost sexy." So it was a modded Prius | |
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05-23-2008, 11:14 AM
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Friends: 0 | Re: Speed Freaks: The 10 fastest green cars Read it again. It says the top speed of the "Landspeed Prius" is 130.8 MPH. That is NOT a production car. It has a modified ECU, roll cage, lowered suspension, etc., etc. The only production car listed there is the Tesla. I'd like one please, sir. What, you don't sell them in Canada? Pity! We don't have any fun. We can't own guns, we can't buy fast EVs. waaaah! |
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05-23-2008, 07:58 PM
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Friends: 0 | Re: Speed Freaks: The 10 fastest green cars They left out Ronaele Mustang. I can't find it now, but they say their only limit on acceleration is figuring our how to keep the wheels on the ground. I think they said something like 3 seconds zero to sixty for their EV600, 600-hp electric version. (They also make gasoline versions. Yuck!) Articles like the one cited by the OP typically find ten instances at random of something or other and print them as the ten most extreme (best, worst, fastest, biggest, whatever). The examples may be interesting, but the selection is seldom justified by the headline. |
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