<![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> @philibuster: 10 miles / 2 minute drive = 300 mph.

@Novaload: It goes only 10 miles on a 4-hour charge; sounds like a relatively small battery (Vuebattery < Priusbattery < Teslabattery) charging at a fairly low amperage. Maybe a dollar or $1.50 worth of electrons? In theory, the electric motor is WAY more efficient, so it's less polluting even if you use a coal power plant to get those electrons. Where I come from, its %80 hydropower.

Ten miles, round trip, that's my commute if you throw in a side trip to Safeway and a run by school to pick up my kids. That's just me. I know most people who commute need to go further.

I'm not in the market for this or any other SUV, but this absolutely makes sense for a guy like me.

lascauxcaveman

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> @Charles_Barrett: I did the math. Twice. I still got 7.

philibuster

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> That bandwagon's getting pretty crowded... FWIW I had a '73 Delta 88 that was almost the same shade of green. I called it "puke green".

Mike the Dog

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> Has anyone every worked out how much it costs in electricity to charge up one of these things? Electricity is relatively cheap--relatively but I don't recall ever seeing the math for that.
10 miles at low speed. 4 hours on the charger.
Sounds like a failing cell phone.

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> The point of a plug-in hybrid is what, exactly? So that the car can run on batteries alone for a little longer, shift some of its energy consumption to dirty coal-burning powerplants, and boost the fortunes of extension cord manufacturers? How many Americans overall even have garages with readily accessible AC outlets?

johnnyangel

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> @philibuster:
"oh yeah, 10 miles? in 4 to 5 hours? So I plug my car in for 4 to 5 hours for a 2 minute drive?"

It'd be worth it to go three-hundred miles per hour... (do the math, Dude)

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> Can anyone say 'pointless'!

Euromobile

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> Uh-oh, 10 miles low speed electric-only operation: there goes Fisker's Karma "stealth mode" niche market. Saturn can sneak you up the driveway after your late-night trysts for half the price...!

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> oh yeah, 10 miles? in 4 to 5 hours? So I plug my car in for 4 to 5 hours for a 2 minute drive?

philibuster

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> I think I'll just leech off other places. Drive around with a 1000' extension cord, plugging in to large corporations' exterior outlets.

philibuster

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> @sos10: Doesn't the wattage depend on the charging rate, i.e., the faster the rate, the higher the wattage?

Hyman Decent

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> It will do nothing to your household equipment... it is not running on 110v it is only recharging... huge Watts difference.

sos10

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> That's not the color of the forests and the moss and the lichen and the grass.

That color evokes "nuclear waste" in my mind.

The Name's Ash78, Housewares

]]> <![CDATA[Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Vue Plug-In Hybrid]]> overheard at Saturn HQ, "Ooh, I know! Let's paint it green!"

combat chuck

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