Electric Yaris is here!

[freeridelectric]

Originally Posted by ellenbetty

Since I do not have access to a place to charge a electric vehicle, I will just have to stick to gasoline powered Yarises for now. For $42,000 I could trade in my Ford Escort. Then I could trade in my dead brother's Ford Ranger. Next I could buy 2 Yarises to cut my gasoline CO2 emissions in 1/2. With the money left over I could put a white roof, with 2 inches of hard foam installation, on my Mom's home, where I live, to cut our home related CO2 emissions in half. O yes I already did that. LOL. Sorry to hear you are heart broken missing you Electric Yaris. At least I have the comfort of my second Yaris when my first Yaris needs to be put into the shop for the first time. ;)

You did the white roof but the 2 inches of hard foam went in the walls right? Or did the foam go on the roof too?

I would like to have another EV for when the E Yaris has difficulties. Hopefully it will run trouble free now. I have a order in to get one of the Nissan EV's in the fall of 2010 before they become available to the public. It is a fleet type thing for businesses, a program involving the DOE.

Originally Posted by ellenbetty

It will be interesting to learn how much it will cost Toyota to build the Hybrid Yaris. It will be interesting to learn how much Toyota plans to sell each Hybrid Yaris. Then we will know if your Electric Yaris is as good a deal, CO2 wise, and cost wise, as a Hybrid Yaris.

The Hybrid Yaris will be sold in europe from what I understand. Hopefully it makes it to the US. It will be more inexpesive than the Prius I am pretty sure.

Originally Posted by scape

i'm for +1 on hybrid, but not the setups being sold at the moment!

to make ICE more efficient is to completely absolve the driveline componentry. call me crazy, but a generator plugged in instead off that stuff, plus an engine being driven at best efficiency torque powering up electric AC motors is much more efficient, granted expensive up front- it is much, much more efficient than an engine with some joe behind the wheel plucking away at the throttle.

They have some examples of a small efficient turbine as a generator for parallel hybrids.