| Re: Are Hybrid Cars rubbish?
I read somewhere that the prius has big lithium batteries, and the lithium mines in Canada are poisioning the area around them (plus the carbon to get the lithium out). Mind you might be right wing propaganda.
But logically a hybrid car with a big heavy battery is not going to be as efficient when travelling along as a typical petrol car, but in a stop-go city environment it has its advantages.
Electric cars are pointless unless its more effiecent to burn the fuel, convert it to electric, send it through miles of wires/cables and charge up the battery than to just burn the fuel in the engine. Unless you charge it on renewable energy of course... |