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    Raser Technology To Greenwash Hummer, Buy It, Save America From Red China

    "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG

    100 MPG Hummer H3: Volt Goes Off-Road
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    05/21/09

    In reply to Raser Technology To Greenwash Hummer, Buy It, Save America From Red China
    Horses were invented for people like Hatch. If you have to decide who's in charge, the dumb animal or the clueless senator, then at least you've got a fifty-fifty shot at getting the horse. With the car, you're screwed.
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    Image of bzr bzr
    05/21/09

    In reply to Raser Technology To Greenwash Hummer, Buy It, Save America From Red China


    Oh noes! Attack of the Red Chinese!

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    05/21/09

    In reply to Raser Technology To Greenwash Hummer, Buy It, Save America From Red China
    Congratulations, Raser Technologies, by building a one off hybrid out of an SUV, you're achieved something only accomplished by dozens of university teams around the country a decade ago, in the hybrid electric vehicle challenge! Of course, they stopped this collegiate competition after mass produced hybrids became so popular that people viewed the challenge as no longer being particularly innovative. I know my school converted the lab space for the Darpa Grand Challenge (autonomous vehicle competition, several years back). tsk, tsk GM, why couldn't you do this?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/21/09

    @nataku83: They did, with the much-less-fucking-useless Tahoe Hybrid (and earlier Silverado/Sierra hybrids).
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/21/09

    @FstrPssycw: Oh, yeah, the Silverado and Sierra "hybrid". That was the one that was just like a regular Silverado or Sierra (depending), except with the beefy starter that allowed it to turn itself off at a stop?


    Great.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/21/09

    @A stʁolling playeʁ: Well yeah. Worthless, but so's this.


    @jdoubleh, aberration roulante: You see why I'd like it to be sold to China, then!

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    Image of jdoubleh jdoubleh
    05/21/09

    @FstrPssycw: No doubt. Perhaps we should scrape together all of our bad ideas and market them as must-haves to China.


    Here's what I have so far (besides Hummer):

    1. Saturn

    2. Sebring, Compass, etc

    3. CAFE Standards

    4. A different fuel formula for every county

    5. Republican Party

    6. Democratic Party

    7. Lobbyists

    8. Earmarks, runaway govt spending

    9.??

    10.???


    I've had a rough day and my brain is shot.


    Anybody?

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/21/09

    @jdoubleh, aberration roulante: Oprah.
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    Image of TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
    05/22/09

    @A stʁolling playeʁ: No no no. The early truck hybrid was weak, but the current GMT900 is actually worth it's beans. The 20mpg city in a loaded pickup.


    I've also seen a HUGE number of these showing up on the road now. It's becoming almost a daily occurrence, surprising actually.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/22/09

    @TexanIdiot25- we're boned....: Right, sorry, I forgot (which is pretty stupid to forget) they updated it along with the 'Hoe-'Kon-'Slade hybrids a couple years back.


    And, I mean, it's Texas. Everyone drives a pickup truck. There are going to be more hybrid pickups there because there are more pickups there, aye?

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    Image of FlakJack FlakJack
    05/21/09

    In reply to Raser Technology To Greenwash Hummer, Buy It, Save America From Red China
    I have to give Hatch credit for being brave enough to venture out for this photo op, as he's been pretty assertive of late that the mere notion of some Gitmo detainees being housed in a Hotel Supermax on US soil is the most horrifying threat to American security since season two of Big Love. I wonder, when he saw that the truck he had to drive was done up in Jumpsuit Orange, if he wet his pants just a little.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/21/09

    In reply to Raser Technology To Greenwash Hummer, Buy It, Save America From Red China
    I say, let China have Hummer. Just about as advanced as what they've got now, powertrains excluded.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    05/21/09

    In reply to Raser Technology To Greenwash Hummer, Buy It, Save America From Red China
    Orrin Hatch is still a Senator? Yeesh.
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    Image of .357 .357
    05/21/09

    In reply to Raser Technology To Greenwash Hummer, Buy It, Save America From Red China
    This guy should get his license revoked.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    04/20/09

    In reply to "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG
    Isn't that about what the US army's hybrid H1 got many years ago?


    Neat vehicle too - it had a motor in each wheel and could reverse one side to turn like a turret... I don't remember much else about it other than that since it was probably >5 years ago, but it made about double the regular mileage of a Hummer.

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    04/20/09

    In reply to "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG
    In other news, even if the weather report says 80% chance or rain, it may actually rain.


    Seriously, like any of us thought 100mpg was plausible in a hummer.

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    Image of Brimful of Ash on the 78 Brimful of Ash on the 78
    04/20/09

    In reply to "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG
    Maybe we just need to switch the damn metric, already. Something that's universal among power sources, because then we can get on with the real business: arguing about the best power source!


    Miles per joule/watt?

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    04/20/09

    @Ash78: Ummm...


    Joule/watt = joules / (joules/sec) = seconds.


    Miles per joule/watt = miles/second.


    Methinks if you're measuring in miles/second you're not going to be running very efficiently...unless you're running a fusion reactor at full-clip, in which case you'd be getting C joules for every kg of mass, which is quite a bit.

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    04/20/09

    @Ash78: I'm still backing the killer wasps standard.
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    Image of maximum-sienna maximum-sienna
    04/20/09

    @Ash78: Seriously, I would agree with you, but then 95% of the population would ask, "What's a joule?" To be honest, I think the best way of doing this would just be $/mile. However, it would be a floating target, so even that has problems.
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    04/21/09

    @maximum-sienna: No make it an area graph, like a torque curve...


    So it would just go from 1mi to the range of a fully topped off H3, and graph the instantaneous mpg should you stop at that mileage...


    whoa...


    I need to stop...

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    04/20/09

    In reply to "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG
    They should advertise it as 100 mpg equivalent, when operating solely from batteries, previously charged by grid electricity. Not a bad number for a Hummer. Neither is 33 mpg when the batteries have depleted and the 4 cylinder kicks in - assuming that's accurate. 33 mpg sounds more like extended milages in mixed traffic that permits the gas engine to recharge the batteries when under light loads.


    Still no reason for anyone to buy a Hummer.

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    Image of tripl3fast tripl3fast
    04/20/09

    In reply to "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG
    So take the most vilified vehicial and make it eco whatever and grab the media headlines to what end? Pure tabloid engineering if you ask me.
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    04/21/09

    @tripl3fast: Doesn't the Russian mafia own Hummer now?
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    Image of Jon Jon
    04/20/09

    In reply to "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG
    My dad used to have a 32 foot Winnebago. It had a big Chevy V8. It had an MPG gauge on the dash. We, too, could make the Winnie peg the MPG gauge at 20mpg. Easy.


    Just find a hill.


    Does that mean that the big Winnie should be advertised as getting 20mpg? No.


    For a short period of time, going down a hill with your foot off the gas, it got 20mpg. Same with this: for a brief period of time, with your electric motor propelling you, you get 100mpg. But as soon as you start using the energy directly off the generator, you're not getting 100mpg anymore.


    Should this be marketed as getting 100mpg? No.

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    Image of wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
    04/20/09

    @Jon: Truer words never graced Jalopnik.


    O wait, my comment was pretty true. Almost as true.


    What a subjective argument I've started...

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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/20/09

    In reply to "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG
    Electric hummer. Sounds like a sex toy.
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    Image of aSoundofSleep-less nights aSoundofSleep-less nights
    04/20/09

    In reply to "100 MPG" Electric Hummer H3 Doesn't Actually Get 100 MPG
    This just in:


    Sham-wow doesn't actually absorb liquid like a sponge!


    Oxi-Clean doesn't get clothes whiter than white!


    Mighty Putty doesn't hold an elephant to your celing!


    Cash 4 gold doesn't really give you cash 4 yur gld!


    Maybe we should get Billy Blanks and good'ol "hooker slapping" Vince Shlomi to advertise this.


    "This is your old pal Billy and my new friend Vince here to tell you about an amaaazzzing new vehicle, the Electric Hummer H3!! You can get a hummer, slap the ho, then run her over with the Hummer. ALL while getting 100mpg! HOLY F*CK!"

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    Image of wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
    04/20/09

    @Duke Sound Vtechen of Sleepenburg: Its made by Americans. Americans always make good stuff.
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