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Bandidoz said: The drawdown of electric charge should not even be considered to be part of the MPG. Rubbish. Like people before you on this thread, you appear confused by the term MPG; you also appear confused by the difference between hybrid (gasoline/electric) and plug-in (gasoline/grid-charged) v...

senile-entity said: From the Car magazine article: Poor old econut, he's all tip and no iceberg. Listen old chap - all I did was post a link to Auto Express (not Car - still having trouble reading, I see). I've made no fancy and unverifiable claims - that's clearly your area of expertise. That, as w...

Poor old senile-entity. cvl101 too. The article on that Prius that I posted a link to clearly stated in about line 3 that it was a plug-hybrid. I mean, duhhhhh, read the link before tap tapping away. Now the self-styled econut is still digging away and getting confused about MPG.

sentiententity said: attend church (2.7 miles one-way) Another trivial distance. I was very depressed when my grandmother stopped moving herself such distances and got one of those electric wheelchairey things. "Use it or lose it" is true...she went downhill very quickly after that. Would ...

clv101 said: I don't understand this. 100mpg is almost twice 55mpg. How does a different battery pack manage to get almost twice the work out of the same fuel? The engine is the same, the duty cycle can be improved a bit, but I wouldn't have thought anywhere near a doubling. The standard battery and...

And of course, this energy is from renewable sources, so carbon footprint is zero (sentiententity) I'd love to know how a pedal powered cycle can have a zero carbon footprint. What about the materials used to make the cycle - their extraction, refinement and transport to the cycle factory? What abo...

"Or you could stick an electric bike on the back, drive part of the way and cycle the rest for a fraction of ?9k . What's the embodied energy in adding batteries to a basic car, and what energy and emissions are involved in working to earn the extra money to buy it?" ============== Valid p...

The standard Prius starts at about ?16.5k. Standard batteries give 2 - 3 miles, before running low, giving the Prius an overall average mpg of around 55 mpg (higher if you drive it properly)...I've got one - you get used to looks, and its a great drive. The Amberjac conversion pulls out the standard...

It's already here. Cost you about ?9k though...

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/carreviews ... erjac.html

Has anybody come across Dowling Stoves? http://www.dowlingstoves.com/ They're hand-built to order, and apparently the customer can be involved in the design. They also come with boilers. Prices seem reasonable. From what I've read, they seem pretty good - anybody have any opinions? I'm going to call...

If anything, he's underselling it. Why? Because people won't accept the reality - as if (judging by the majority of posts here) they even accept the sanitized version.

Compo - hopefully, your ticking Dunsley is a false alarm and all is well? Saw a Dunsley Yorkshire this weekend in a showroom. Bloody hell, what a beast. Not my cup of tea appearance-wise, but a carved-from-granite kind of solidity, and some quality materials (e.g. the chromed steel ash plates). Made...

Shay, Check out the Scan 4 (also comes with a single front door). Scan are very well built and high quality stoves. http://www.scan.dk/page/195?selected_id=40&idx=#40 Also rather nice is the Hwam Classic 4. Comes with a cooking section: http://www.euroheat.co.uk/showroom.php?prod=433&show1=H...

Hi Compo - just wondering how it's going with your Dunsley stove.

Cheers,
Dan.

I'm running a Prius and can get nowhere near the official figures. After 12,500 miles the average consumption is 52.1mpg. It should theoretically achieve 65.7mpg. I'm 25% down on this. Most of the driving is on flattish country A and B roads at 60mph. Hi Barney, The Prius is very dependent on tempe...