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birdwatcher ([personal profile] birdwatcher) wrote2009-05-17 06:39 pm
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Rant, прекрасный

Jeremy Clarkson/Sunday Times -- The nickel for the battery has to come from somewhere. Canada, usually. It has to be shipped to Japan, not on a sailing boat, I presume. And then it must be converted, not in a tree house, into a battery, and then that battery must be transported, not on an ox cart, to the Insight production plant in Suzuka. And then the finished car has to be shipped, not by Thor Heyerdahl, to Britain, where it can be transported, not by wind, to the home of a man with a beard who thinks he’s doing the world a favour.

Why doesn’t he just buy a Range Rover, which is made from local components, just down the road? No, really — weird-beards buy locally produced meat and vegetables for eco-reasons. So why not apply the same logic to cars?

потому что уроды из ровера

[identity profile] freedom_of_sea.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
не делают гибридов

[identity profile] tacente.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
Кларксон вообще прекрасный.
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[personal profile] nine_k 2009-06-01 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Видимо, надо ещё running costs учесть. Может, выгоднее (в смысле СО2 тоже) таки из Японии тащить, зато потом жечь вдвое меньше бензина.

Ну и детали роверов, думаю, тоже не все из местной стали и, тем более, никеля?

[identity profile] birdwatcher.livejournal.com 2009-06-01 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
усё уже учтено (http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/print_item.asp?NewsID=188)
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[personal profile] nine_k 2009-06-01 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Понятно. Эх, надо местные электрокары покупать — Tesla Roadster, к примеру :]

Или ждать массового производства дешёвых гибридов на месте.