2011 Toyota Prius
2011 Toyota Prius questions and answers
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Q: Poll: What do ya think about the new 2011 model of the Toyota Prius (picture included)?
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A: I agree with Pinball_fan. It's just a concept car. Based on looks only, I guess it's not all that bad. But with the technology available today, they should be able to do a lot better. It better get 100 miles per gallon because looks sure ain't gonna sell it. It's not exactly what I'd call sleek.
Q: TOYOTA PRIUS 2008 OR FORD FIESTA 2011?............?
for a first car?......why?
Im thinking for a car next year or maybe in 2 or 3 years?...........
newer isnt always better
I also like the camaro or the mustang but still not sure....
A: Neither. Don't spend $20k+ on your first car, its a waste as chance are, you'll crash it. Also please, don't be a spoiled rich girl and drive around in a V6 camaro/mustang. Buy something cheap to learn on, then buy something nicer.
While the prius is better on gas, unless you're driving it for 300k+ miles, you don't get the money you spent on it back. They tell you its "Green" or good for the environment, but in all reality the way the nickel for the batteries is mined destroys miles upon miles of land and turns them to nothing, all they want is for you to think they care about the environment.
Q: is there a drive car show for 2011 prius?
I saw a ads for a car show for 2011 sienna, will it be anything like that for other toyota cars?
A: There have been events for the Prius in the past. However, traditionally the next year's Prius doesn't come out till after the August factory holidays.
Q: When do the 2011 cars start becoming available?
I am specifically thinking about the Toyota Prius. We want to buy a 2010 model and have heard that when the next year's models come out, the current model goes on sale. Curious how long we have to wait...
A: Traditionally the Prius' model year starts being manufactured right after the August factory holidays with the first cars arriving in North America about the middle of October. However, this is subject to change so watch for the announcements of the new model. Once it's announced, the previous year's model will go on sale. The longer you wait the less it will be but the greater the chance you won't get the options that you want.
Q: Which car is better? VW Jetta TDI or Toyota Prius?
This will be my first car, I need it to last me a while, which one is more dependable. Both cars will be 2011.
A: It would go with the German technology VW, less complicated and more dependable than the Prius and you don't have to replace a expensive battery pack every 8 years...plus it's know fact that diesel motors outlast gasoline ones by double... Plus it gets better overall mpg..
Q: (homework) please can you summarize and respond this article?
Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads?
by Jim Ostroff
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Courtesy of MDI
A new carmaker has a plan for cheap, environmentally friendly cars to be built all over the country
An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline.
The expertise needed to build a compressed air car, or CAV, is not rocket science, either. Years-old, off-the-shelf technology uses compressed air to drive old-fashioned car engine pistons instead of combusting gas or diesel fuel to create a burst of air to do the same thing. Indian carmaker Tata has no qualms about the technology. It has already bought the rights to make the car for the huge Indian market.
The air car can tool along at a top speed of 35 mph for some 60 miles or so on a tank of compressed air, a sufficient distance for 80% of consumers to commute to work and back and complete daily chores.
Courtesy of MDI
On highways, the CAV can cruise at interstate speeds for nearly 800 miles with a small motor that compresses outside air to keep the tank filled. The motor isn't finicky about fuel. It will burn gasoline or diesel as well as biodiesel, ethanol or vegetable oil.
This car leaves the highest-mpg vehicles you can buy right now in the dust. Even if it used only regular gasoline, the air car would average 106 mpg, more than double today's fuel sipping champ, the Toyota Prius. The air tank also can be refilled when it's not in use by being plugged into a wall socket and recharged with electricity as the motor compresses air.
Automakers aren't quite ready yet to gear up huge assembly line operations churning out air cars or set up glitzy dealer showrooms where you can ooh and aah over the color or style. But the vehicles will be built in factories that will make up to 8,000 vehicles a year, likely starting in 2011, and be sold directly to consumers.
There will be plants in nearly every state, based on the number of drivers in the state. California will have as many as 17 air car manufacturing plants, and there'll be around 12 in Florida, eight in New York, four in Georgia, while two in Connecticut will serve that state and Rhode Island.
The technology goes back decades, but is coming together courtesy of two converging forces. First, new laws are likely to be enacted in a few years that will limit carbon dioxide emissions and force automakers to develop ultra-high mileage cars and those that emit minuscule amounts of or no gases linked with global warming. Plug-in electric hybrids will slash these emissions, but they'll be pricey at around $40,000 each and require some changes in infrastructure -- such as widespread recharge stations -- to be practical. Fuel cells that burn hydrogen to produce only water vapor still face daunting technical challenges.
Second, the relatively high cost of gas has expedited the air car's development. Yes, pump prices have plunged since July from record levels, but remain way higher than just a few years ago and continue to take a bite out of disposable income. Refiners will face carbon emission restraints, too, and steeply higher costs will be passed along at the pump.
Zero Pollution Motors doesn't plan to produce the cars in the U.S. Instead, it plans to charge $15 million for the rights to the technology, a fully built turnkey auto assembly plant, tools, machinery, training and rights to use trademarks.
The CAV has a big hurdle: proving it can pass federal crash tests. Shiva Vencat, president and CEO of Zero Pollution Motors, says he's not worried. "The requirements can be modeled [on a computer] before anything is built and adjusted to ensure that the cars will pass" the crash tests. Vencat also is a vice president of MDI Inc., a French company that developed the air car.
The inventor of this technology is Mr. Guy Negre, who is the founder and CEO of MDI SA, a company headquartered in Luxembourg with its R and D in Nice, France.
A: Best way to do this assignment is to break it down into bite-size pieces. Take each paragraph and jot down the most important point(s) in it. For example:
An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline.
becomes:
Zero Pollution Motors is developing an air-powered car that will cost $20,000 and run all day on nothing but air and a bit of salad oil, alcohol or a pint of gasoline.
Do the same for each paragraph. Now you'll have a condensed version and, more importantly, it will be in your own words.
Then shorten ever more, if possible.