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No guts, no glory.
I especially like the recycled recycling bin on the back.
That’s a top-secret prototype of Chrysler’s new federally-mandated green car, cleverly camouflaged by the addition of a lawn chair.
How many stars for the side impact rating?
What a nice contraption, it’s nice to see that people haven’t lost their skill to building stuff. Possibly the most ecological (and perhaps the most economical also) road-legal motor vehicle I’ve seen, too.
I guess that EV works well in the countryside, with light traffic, and people used to tractors and other slow vehicles blocking the road. I wouldn’t want to drive that in the city, though.
I’m not sure which would be more annoying, being stuck behind that shit-can in real traffic or having to listen to three more microseconds of the music that accompanied the video.
Why not just drive a golf cart? Or ride a bike? Or walk? The distances she went just don’t justify a specialized vehicle for the purpose.
On the other hand how much gasoline would she burn just driving?
Walking?
Just don’t see the point and I like EVs.
I keep wondering if no car zones would ever fly in the USA. They have them in Europe. I somehow think Americans would just avoid them and the shops there would fold.
I really like my cars but I tire of the hassle they have become in some situations.
This is great. It meets her needs, and somebody made it so it would have turn signals and such. I’ve got qualms with this, especially since it required some ingenuity, rather than gummint money.
john.fritz beat me to it. that music could drive a tree hugger to a hummer. And even without the music that video is terrible PR. I mean, if that’s what green is about, I don’t think more than one in 1,000–maybe one in 10,000–Americans will sign on. I can just see Sarah Palin using that video as propaganda for more off-shore drilling.
At the beginning of that film, I noticed a nicely converted mountain bike (into a road going commuter) propped up alongside the driveway. Now, having built more than a few of those, and since I’m currently using one to get from my country home into town (3 miles each way to the post office, call it 5 to the grocery store) can you please explain to me why someone would bother to go to the trouble to build one of those electric contraptions to run the small amount of errands that she’s completing?
No fossil fuels used whatsoever (be it in running a car or generating the electricity to charge the batteries), virtually no cost per mile whatsoever, and after a year or two of using the bicycle regularly that lady would be looking at a waist and butt size quite a bit smaller than what she’s presently sporting.
Sorry, electric cars for under five mile distances are a complete waste as far as I’m concerned, not to mention technological overkill.
That thing makes a Smart Tata Nano look like an S-class.
I have to agree with Syke… while it might be a nifty little machine to cobble together (appealing to my hobbyist / Make magazine side) wouldn’t a bike be better, on so many grounds? It was like when the Segway came out, I thought, “Wonderful, an invention that lets even MORE Americans avoid exercise!” (Though its comic potential was pretty nice, witness Arrested Development…)
I wanted to like it in a “fun homemade toy” way.
But the music made me feel hate. Nothing but hate.
Compare/contrast to the Ford UAW official who went home via the 7-11 and then went out again just to pickup another 6-pack in his F250 Powerstroke.
What-ever happened to those guys? Anyone know?
I just don’t get it. That’s a round trip of less than a kilometre (1,075 yards!). The dangly things coming out of the bottom of the shorts are called legs. They are useful for things like walking or cycling.
The two things which hang down from the shoulders. They are called arms. They have grabby things on the end which would be perfect for carrying say, a couple of bags.
Being able to move is the difference between being dead and being alive. Why do people try and avoid it so much?! A bicycle is a much more elegant machine and it is much greener than that contraption :-/
People are lazy and dislike getting wet. I say, stop saying she should ride a bike. Better to commend the fact she is not taking her SUV to go shopping like everybody else does.
Girlfriend,
Take the bike or use those “dangly things” as Tricky said.
Both of those options will do your arse some good….and delay the day that my Federal Government-raped wallet has to pay for your Type 2 Diabetes meds.
I actually ride bikes at least several miles each week. Considering I live in one of the less densely populated flyover states, I’m lucky that there’s a supermarket, dry cleaner, pharmacy, bank, Starbucks and even a shopping mall within two miles (3.2 km) of my home.
But I actually hesitate to ride my bike if an errand involves ferrying packages. Perhaps it’s just me, but carrying any weight other than my own throws off my balance, even if a basket is used. And I refuse to ride an adult trike!
That’s just the thing to run downtown and pick up a package of ding-dongs and some chocolate milk. If it were a little smaller she could drive up the handicapped ramp and go right into a store..oh wait.
Heh! GM could build that same car for only $10 billion ($15 billion if union labor used).
She is wearing a Sweater and Gloves with Shorts!