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Originally Posted by gpsman1
My Ford Escape Hybrid has a kilowatt display. This is easily converted to horsepower ( 746 watts to 1 HP ) IIRC.
For MOST of my city driving, I'm using about 15,000 watts.
This is 20 horsepower.
For flat highway drivng, at speeds of about 65 MPH I need twice this.
Short of dragging redwood trees out of the forest... by the roots....
Why would ANYONE NEED 339 horsepower for daily driving?
WHAT A WASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only when the general public accepts 50 Horsepower cars as standard will electric driving become feasible. |
Because America is a land of wants, not a land of needs. If you gave a half-starving person with no car $15,000, 7 out of 10 of them would buy a $14,999 car and still go hungry.
So long as someone want's bigger and faster, someone will make bigger or faster. Early on in this post I got real upset about this car and what it represented. I don't know if I care so much anymore. Someone out to buy a car in this class now has a hybrid to choose from. That's good, because someone out to buy a car like this is going to own one. At least it's a step above the alternatives, and a step in the right direction.
Anyway, I don't know if this car is in any of our price ranges (it certainly is
not in mine) - sort of makes it easier to criticize I think.