Is a direct 12V connection to an Alpine CDA-9833 really necessary?
December 18, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Other - Electronics
Joe questioned:
Bought a used Alpine CDA-9833 and upon researching this fastidious type of unit, it recommends the use of supervise over potential from the cars battery via 10awg potential wire due to it having a somewhat powerful V-Handbook hybrid MOSFET60 domestic amp (26 watts RMS per supervise over).
Now when I went to my community audio shop to have it installed into my car (1998 Pontiac Grand Prix GT), they said I didn’t need an amp kit and that my cars domestic utilize is ample ample. So now the telephone logic is hooked up without the 10awg. and was plugged frankly into the GM utilize.
I tried to tell them I looked-for a supervise over potential line, but they balanced me I didn’t. I just took their word and let them bed in. They’re are a reputable audio shop and have been in business for 20+ being.
The telephone logic is hooked up and facility perfectly (sounds incredible as well).
My question is this. Am I, or will I do any hurt to the unit or car having it hooked up without the supervise over 10awg from the battery?
Thankfulness for any info!
Link to telephone logic:
http://www.crutchfield.com/p_500CDA9833/Alpine-CDA-9833.html?search=cda9833&ssi=0&tp=5684
How ridiculous is it that we have to settle for hybrids, when we could have electric cars?
December 14, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Lovex_Fan questioned:
I recently just saw the documentary called, “Who killed the Gripping car?”. It discussion about this incredible modest car which is powered by electricity. It’s smaller, closer, and gives off NO detrimental emissions. The car can payment at night, and be well ample to get you owing to the day. It can even be used as a GENERATOR for your household in a potential-outage. Well, guess what? GM buys out all the batteries which are used in these cars, which earnings– No more gripping car.
Now public are worrying about global warming, and being paid HYBRIDS!! Figure that? Even even if, we had a perfectly fine car effective for the enviroment until GM recalled them, hurt them and hurt their batteries. No more gripping cars.
Whats your attitude?
Will the Combustion Engine EVER be replaced?
December 13, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Engineering
Sweet Baby Jesus! questioned:
It’s been around forever. You see guys all over who aver they have uncommon energy sources adn equipment, this has been inane on forever. GM even had a levelheaded battery powered car in the 90’s. With all this talk about green household gases and the price of gasoline, why the crap are we subdue life sold 30MPG cars?
Hegemony, cash, lack of better alternatives?
I’m just not export this hybrid crap. The equipment must exist, right?
I guess the Road Fighter show wasn’t that far off. Just reflect of the oil cash that would be lost, the wars not fought, the frankness Americans would have if their cars may maybe be exciting at home. Has anyone here seen what they are building in Dubai??
Here is the EV1
http://www.trilulilu.ro/rokker/8510ca0ccb28a7?video_google_com=
I subdue can’t judge solar panels place of protection’t spellbound on in the mainstream, I guess it’s in view of the fact that they’re subdue so gosh dang pointlessly pricey. You can buy a $25,000 solar potential unit for a home and really make cash back on the electricity you don’t use and yield for the potential company and it comes with a 25 year warranty. Now if it was half that price that would be awe-inspiring.
Could Chevy catch or surpass Toyota as the greenest auto manufacturer?
December 3, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Dana1981, Master of Knowledge questioned:
Chevy remains on schedule to yield the Volt by the end of 2010. This car will be able to go 40 miles decently using an gripping engine, with which top it will act like a gas/gripping hybrid. Effectively as long as you don’t travel more than 40 miles in a day, the Volt will be an gripping car.
GM is requiring a 10 year time for the Volt’s lithium-ion battery, and expects to have next-age assemble lithium-ion battery packs ready for the vehicles by October this year.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070809/sc_nm/gm_volt_dc
The Toyota Prius is plainly the greenest car unfilled right now
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070727/sc_nm/cars_pollution_dc
even if the Honda Civic hybrid is accurate in the rear. While Toyota is effective on a plug-in Prius model, they place of protection’t yet well yet to be to the lithium-ion battery the boards and thus have fallen in the rear Chevy in the plug-in market.
Toyota surpassed American companies in hybrid equipment a decade ago – is GM finally about to reverse this?
What do you think of GM’s new concept, the Chevy Volt?
December 1, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Other - Cars & Transportation
Essential Mass questioned:
If you don’t know what I’m discussion about, here’s a link:
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/01/07/detroit-auto-show-chevrolet-volt-thought/
The Volt is in the end a hybrid car with a ton of battery Storage space space. It can run up to 40 miles on battery potential lonely, and you just plug it in at night to give a new lease of life it, so no more gasoline if you handbook less than 40 miles per day.
The battery equipment is not ready yet, but it looks to me like a very excellent thought that may maybe be a top-promotion production vehicle in a few being.
Your view on GM and the Volt?
Has Obama Asked Whether GM Can Build a 50mpg Car Like the 1979 VW Rabbit?
At Smallest amount Hussein Kept us Safe questioned:
What excellent is a hybrid if 1970s equipment allowed 50 mpg vehicles over 25 being ago?
Tony,
Warm that Sphere! Warm that sphere with excuses. You signal like the $73/hour UAW
GM’s big mistake with the Chevy Volt, how would you fix it?
Trekd questioned:
In the admittance, market studies shows that this car must sell at around $20,000 to be competitive and save GM.
Now the price has ballooned up to $40,000 by the time the car is on the outlet baffle.
The Chevy Volt is not a hybrid, but a right gripping car with a battery pack and a small gas 1 liter 3-cylinder engine that generates electricity only when the battery pack runs low, also called total mode. While the car is in total mode, the engine generates electricity to the gripping motors AND charges the batteries. The engine itself is not physically collectively to the wheels.
It does not have an engine/transmission drivetrain like any additional car, even the Toyoto Prius has the traditional engine/transmission drivetrain (it just has a battery pack added on).
Here’s the huge mistake: The wits for the high cost boost is the battery equipment is subdue in its ahead of schedule stages and very pricey.
Here’s the huge question: If the Chevy Volt gets 50 MPG while in total mode, why not just skip the total battery equipment and make the car with just the gas engine to grant the electricity?
That would place the price well below the $20,000, reduces the consequence of the car, adds more interior room, makes it competitive with the Prius, the modest engine can be basically replaced if worn, swapped for a better cleaner one, or swapped for a diesel one that can run on biofuels.
The question: What do you reflect GM must’ve done?
Big immoral business and corporate conspiracy?
November 27, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Green Living
andeez questioned:
with uncommon sources of gripping energy possible, we had a splendid non-polluting, low-cost vehicle for transportation that we may maybe just plug into an outlet to refuel. if all had solar panels on their roofs at home, we may maybe offset the energy expenditure of ‘refuelling’ this car and it would be a near exact energy logic. what happened? GM literally killed the gripping car and introduced the humvee to make more cash. incredible.
don’t these companies realize they may maybe make billions if they would just offer us another really plug-in gripping vehicle, let lonely at the very smallest amount a mass bent plug-in hybrid that can get 150mpg ???
If i purchase a nearly new GM vehicle in the US, does the warranty transfer over to Canada?
November 18, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Buying & Selling
Rosey questioned:
I am looking at export a near new 2008 Chevy Malibu Hybrid in the US for about $6000 cheaper than in Canada. My community Chevy dealer told me that here would be no warranty on the vehicle once it arrives in Canada. Is this right? If so, that’s sweet terrible of GM.
Hybrid or American Muscle Car ?
November 11, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Polls & Surveys
Ed the freshman (5 MoRe DaYs) questioned:
I reflect i’m all for Muscle in view of the fact that that’s what real men handbook. I’m also looking forwards to GM’s Chevy Volt ( and it is not a hybrid they call it an electrical vehicle). Which one do you prefer?
What will ultimately happen to GM and Ford and why do Americans prefer foreign cars?
November 11, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Other - Car Makes
Just Asking questioned:
Really, what’s inane to take place to them — takeover by a Japanese auto maker or maybe a establishment venture? They’re struggling and here’s just no way they can sustain themselves for much longer. The Japanese auto makers seem to be way yet to be in stipulations of reliability, top, fuel efficiency, environmental considerations etc. Can GM and Ford really carry on or are they doomed to a Darwinian fatality?
Where can I buy a true plug and run electric vehicle today (no toys pls)?
November 7, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Other - Cars & Transportation
ehealthshop questioned:
GM and others used to make gripping vehicles that exciting overnight. They ran for about 120 mpg, were sterile, no flash plugs, quick startup, etc., and exciting overnight. The cost was equivalent to running 120mpg for 60cents. If bent now with a gas endorsement, one may maybe take nearly any trip they sought after. We would probably be no more disadvantaged on unknown oil.
But in view of the fact that I don’t judge these gripping/gas hybrid types of vehicles are bent somewhere, I am attracted in the original gripping cars that allowed one to go 120miles without charging. This would probably give 75% of all my driving wants.
Where can I get one? I’ve looked the planet over that I know to look.
Plug in hybrid sports car? Coming when? And from whom?
November 7, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Other - Cars & Transportation
Ron Auburn questioned:
I thought the GM Volt would be “it”, but the production translation isn’t reasonably the sporty coupe the thought drawings made it out to be. Also, the Toyota FT-HS thought has been cool down of late (maybe dead)? Even if with our luck it’d turn out to be a minivan. Has anyone heard any news on a PHEV, or “total array gripping vehicle” sports coupe appearance any time soon?
Does anyone else think the concept of a hybrid Tahoe/Suburban/Yukon is hilarious?
fleckenstien questioned:
Don’t get me incorrect, I’m a fan of huge cars, my first car was an ‘85 blazer. But sincerely guys. You’r compelling the largest vehicle you can buy and adding a HYBRID to the lineup? If it makes cash for GM, they can go yet to be and do no matter what they want, but when I reflect of hybrid I want to see something like a malibu or treaty, both of which already have the equipment. If we’re tiresome to use less oil, we just need to buy smaller cars. With a hybrid tahoe, your just ignoring the problem to get a slight warm feeling surrounded by while subdue enjoying your rhinocerous of a car.
So how long till Wal Mart starts selling Hybrid cars?
October 29, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Other - Politics & Government
Anon questioned:
YES! Girls and boys we’ll say goodbye to GM and additional car related factories thankfulness to our community Wal Mart. AND I want you to guess… Who will be making them?
I hope you like effective at your community Wal Mart.
Wal Mart is one of the tribulations… All is from China. That is where we are shipping industry to. We’re handing out cash to additional countries.
Wal Mart and Honda hybrids. Just some more fantastic bits and pieces Wal Mart sells from somewhere else.
wiring on hybrid cars?
October 26, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Maintenance & Repairs
gary w questioned:
gm wiring on hybrid cars for protection for frist responders
New hybrids from two very different car companies?
InterIntel questioned:
Is it right, that Bavarian Motor Facility (BMW) and General Motors (GM) will by all accounts be teaming up to top , sell something to a name and build new hybrid vehicles?
New hybrids from two very different car companies?
InterIntel questioned:
Is it right, that Bavarian Motor Facility (BMW) and General Motors (GM) will by all accounts be teaming up to top , sell something to a name and build new hybrid vehicles?
Big trucks/SUVs are going hybrid now but how about Tesla put something out?
October 24, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Alternative Fuel Vehicles
John K questioned:
In view of the fact that Tesla is appearance out with a sedan in a few being to stay on up its sports car, it makes implication to stay on this send to what so many Americans want to buy.
Similarly, a full gripping translation seems to make more implication even than the hybrids that GM, get out of, etc. are inane to place out (much stuck-up efficiency) and here is bounty of room for the battery packs required.
Doesn’t that seem a most likely step for the margin?
(I am not collectively with high mileage stylishness of speaking vehicles or those who really go to the approximate public here)
I did specifically exclude those who take their SUVs long interval (most public don’t tow boats to Florida).
Also, anyone who understands much about Tesla knows they’re not underpowered (even if a moderately better motor would be called for, it would subdue be much smaller than a conventional engine. This leaves bounty of room for batteries to take it a few hundred miles). Max torque unfilled a 0 RPM – not one conventional car engine can contest that.
who was the first company to come out with a hybrid vehicle?
October 23, 2009 by MyHybrid
Filed under Other - Cars & Transportation
Amber K questioned:
im doing a investigate project and it would be nice to know the order of production…was it toyota then gm then nissan?? what is the order and the year if possible





















