Dumb Euros build their roads and towns (and garages) way too small'ly. No way to drive one of those bad boyz around here. Also, too, gasoline is about a thousand euros an ounce. But we still have particulate polluting diesel, hurray!
I'm the upper-right corner of that black dot triangle in the bottom left, a Nissan Versa (Note). I suspect that they're playing fast and loose with the Smart Car stats: the engine wants premium gas (the Nissan's doesn't care) and gets grumpy when it doesn't get its way, so I don't think it can get both fewer carbon emissions and a lower TCO on the same tankful.
Back when I was car shopping in September '15 (a/k/a 37k miles ago), EV's didn't (still don't?) have the range to go the 100+ mi a day I'd need without stopping, and I have no place at home to plug one in regardless. As for the hybrids, without the now-expired tax break for them they didn't make financial sense even with $4/gal gasoline (I think my metric was "Would the difference pay for itself before I paid the note off?").
So… CVT, driving habits that piss off the people behind me, and marveling at their own driving habits.
The |real thing.|
I [prefer this.]
Dumb Euros build their roads and towns (and garages) way too small'ly. No way to drive one of those bad boyz around here. Also, too, gasoline is about a thousand euros an ounce. But we still have particulate polluting diesel, hurray!
It's [clean! Honest!]
Plus all that socialist public transportation, like subways'n'buses'n'shit.
I'm the upper-right corner of that black dot triangle in the bottom left, a Nissan Versa (Note). I suspect that they're playing fast and loose with the Smart Car stats: the engine wants premium gas (the Nissan's doesn't care) and gets grumpy when it doesn't get its way, so I don't think it can get both fewer carbon emissions and a lower TCO on the same tankful.
Back when I was car shopping in September '15 (a/k/a 37k miles ago), EV's didn't (still don't?) have the range to go the 100+ mi a day I'd need without stopping, and I have no place at home to plug one in regardless. As for the hybrids, without the now-expired tax break for them they didn't make financial sense even with $4/gal gasoline (I think my metric was "Would the difference pay for itself before I paid the note off?").
So… CVT, driving habits that piss off the people behind me, and marveling at their own driving habits.
When they really tailgate me threateningly closely, I start cranking the speed control down one mile per hour until they get the idea and go around.
Interesting graph, thanks. My second gen prius is about even with my friend's Ford C Max.