Is the Hummer "greener" than the Prius?

We don't throw out that which is useful just because some Frenchified academics feel otherwise.

I think you mean "calculations are so much easier in SI" !

What's a slug btw ?

Graham

Wrong by nearly 3:1.

Graham

What's so useful about a system that uses multiples of 3, 8, 12, 16 etc... between adjacent units ?

Graham

1) The entire country is surveyed in those units 2) There are a plethora of useful integer-valued approximations.

How so? I've seen a couple Hummers flipped onto their sides or top after altercations with cars (which remained upright).

Yes, and I bet the Hummer wasn't crushed like a tin can either. Would you really want to be rammed by a truck while in a Prius? Think before you answer.

Exactly. You can't.

Graham

They probably picked it because it's readily available and, at 12V, it can run all the car's accessories. And perhaps a charge leaks off it slwoer than off a NiMH.

Suffering from reading comprehension problems?

Toyota's engineers could.

Idiot.

I would rather be in the Hummer if the Hummer is doing the ramming.

My wife saw a Hummer rammed by a relatively small car a couple of years back and the Hummer flipped over onto it's top. The people in the car faired better in that scenario. So I guess the answer is "it depends".

Not to mention that Hummers are more likely to flip over if they go off the side of the highway or in high-speed maneuvers.

Jeff

Depends on what your wife meant by "small car". Either way, I think I would take my chances with the Hummer.

How fast was the small car going? A Mini Cooper doing 100mph can do a lot of damage, equal to or greater than a full sized car doing only 20. E=MCsquared.

E = MC^2 (E = Energy, M = mass of the object converted to energy, C = the speed of light in a vacuum, ^ 2 means squared) means that matter can be converted to energy and vice versa. This equation is only relevant here if either the Mini Cooper is blows up in an atomic explosion. Last I check, Mini Coopers are not made of uranium.

The relevant equation is E = 0.5 MV^2, where the kinetic energy E = the mass of the object M, and V = the velocity of the object.

Jeff

Gee, yer smrt.