Comments on: Volvo develops five-fuel prototype

By: manny

manny — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:34:28 +0000

jae, it is collision tested… the car is just a normal v70, just a new engine…
but… what the hell is with that paint color?
and piablo, the advantage of having the car capable of running on multiple fuels is it wont be useless when one fuel doesnt catch on, and you arent stuck with an expensive betamax machine…

By: Piablo

Piablo — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:38:31 +0000

No, not at all. Personally, I don’t subscribe to the idea that we are burning too much gas. Gasoline and deisal are only a small percentage of what crude is refined into. Plastics make up more than 2/3 of refined crude. I find the idea of making people drive smaller cars rediculous. Why not buy less platic? But if people want to burn less gas, then the simple logic is to drive a vehicle that requires less energy to move. My point was, that society is not willing to do so. Even Al Gore, who burns 700,000 gallons of jet fuel in the very same atmosphere he is trying to save in order to attend a global warming summit.

The real solution to any energy problem, real or imagined, is to focus on a common solution and develop the technology into a viable scenario. Instead what we have is a Volvo with the automotive equivelent of a single machine offering Betamax, VHS, and Laser-Disc. Where is the innovation??

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:47:50 +0000

Piablo,

So in other words, in automotive sense you are acting like a hypocrite.

Jon.

By: Piablo

Piablo — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:30:27 +0000

“Multi-Fuel” and all of the other marketing pitches is all fine and dandy but it really does nothing for the situation. If companies really wanted to solve this alternative fuel situation, why not come to a consensus and stop wasting money on stupid marketing gimmicks like ‘multi-fuel’.

I look at this situation like I look at fat people. If a fat person doesn’t like being fat, well they need to eat less and excersize. If society realllly wants to burn less gas and save money, then they need to lose weight and excersize by by buying a smaller car. That’s it. But society still enjoys being fat, and to be honest, I love driving my XTerra.

By: JS

JS — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:10:36 +0000

Too bad it doesn´t work with trash like in “back to future”. And it seems it wouldn´t be a good idea to park that car on a dry vegetation place because of the exhaust temperatures. If that car eventually burns, it´s going to be a show with all these hydrogen, methane, bioethanol, natural gas and petrol. However I trust Volvo when talking about security.

By: Jae

Jae — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:40:55 +0000

Very impressive. I’m afraid of that exhaust though. Now lets get it collision tested and on the road.
Oh and what is the range? By fuel type?

By: DaveO

DaveO — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:13:51 +0000

With six you get hybrid!