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These aggregated lists are always a bit iffy. The Nissan USA site does offer a manual option for the Versa, but CVT is the only option for all Versa trims on the Nissan Canada site. Same with the Mitsubishi Mirage, from what I can tell.
What? It is 13 cents per kwh not 13%. If you want to be angry look at mcguintys first batch of solar contracts at 87 cents per kwh for 20 years.
i have no problem with solar costing more. The problem was 87 cents. If McGuinty wanted xx MW of solar, he should have done an RFQ and installed the cheapest xx MW. The same solar would have been installed at half the cost. Politicians setting the price created an unnecessary and unhelpful dumpster fire of our money.
I wouldn't go that far. I think that over time, EV's will rule the world and a stick makes no sense for an EV. Sadly, for performance, economy and cost reasons, I expect row your own to be relegated to "classic" cars within my lifetime.
I wouldn't be so sure...first time ever there's no STI from Subaru, and the top spec WRX is CVT only.
Barf. CVT for the WRX? The worst.
I dunno…if my WRX was the CVT I’d probably have kept it. The 6MT was a pain in traffic compared to the stick in the GTI.
of a transmission.
!?!? Most cars on the road and most cars being sold are SUVs and trucks. They are, from the get go, more dangerous for pedestrians and other smaller cars. Most SUV and truck drivers don't have or want manual transmission, so i dont think it's the hoods on compact cars that are having such an impact.
Wind power costs a lot more than natural gas. The raw generating costs are about the same, somewhere between 12 and 15c/kwh, the big difference is wind turbines work best when there is little demand (spring and fall and overnight). As a result, copious amounts of wind power are dumped. With gas, you just shut the burners down and don't generate unnecessary energy. Ever see a wind turbine not spinning on a windy day? That happens because OntarioHydro can curtail wind generators by 10% by paying them a curtailing fee (a fee to stop generating) when there is too much power.
Not just drag coefficient. Manufacturers like to focus on that. What matters is drag coefficient times frontal area. There are crickets around discussion of frontal area. The roof rack rails they like to mount on most vehicles in the hopes that you buy $1000 crossbars increase frontal area with zero benefit to most owners. A wagon compared to an SUV has a substantially reduced frontal area.
Have you seen the NG contracts? Baseload NG isn't too bad, the peak contracts are brutal (but thankfully not used for too many MWH/year). It's dispatchable power which is obviously good but price is much much higher than we are paying for wind.
My 1500lb '69 Spitfire has a .39Cd, that's worse than my Dodge 5700lb RAM 4x4 at 0.357Cd.
And that's where the multiplication gets ignored. Dodge ram CdA equals 18.25. Spitfire CdA equals 6.5. Both carry one person most of the time. Drag on the truck is triple even though Cd is lower.
Natural Gas and Bio plants are only generating when there is demand. Hydro curtails generation by dumping water at very little cost, wind has days where it dunps 10% under curtailment agreements but accepts, pays, and then dumps generated power at nearly 100% loss.
Is that why my truck uses so much more fuel?
Might be a part of the equation. Maybe.
Hoods must have either crumple zone space between the hood and the engine, or have poppers that pop the hood up at the hinges so that when a pedestrian is hit, they don't contact the engine. A good friend of mine has been a car designer for years. That's how he explained it to me (or that's how I remember him explaining it to me).
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