I agree, completely.

Teaching kids about fuel efficiency while they're learning how to drive is completely out of place. I was somewhat surprised to see this post show up on autobloggreen to begin with.

Environmentalism and greenism is certainly a religion. It has all of the symptoms of it.

Driver's education should focus on safety and traffic laws and how to operate a car. Not having jerky starts and stops has always been part of the curriculum. Messing with the kid's head telling them to focus on fuel economy is a bad thing because they should learn right off the bat that their focus should be on one thing: safety. Nothing else.

so i should just charge it to the 80% range, unplug it, and keep charing to maintain in in that range?

makes sense about the cars. glad they're foreseeing all this and taking measures to prevent batteries from dying out.

I know this is a little off topic but please enlighten me.

I only have 128 cycles and have only ever charged it when the battery goes down to 10% or below. Then I charge it to a hundred a leave it plugged in (assuming that it's only taking power from the AC and not the battery once it reaches 100) and only take it out when i need to, and let it go down to 10% again and recharge to 100. Is that not how you're supposed to do it?

My laptop battery is a year old and now iStat tells me it has 22% health. It only holds a charge for about an hour on minimal use when before it would last 4 hours with moderate use. I've been taking good care of it, etc.

What does this mean for electric cars running on these type of batteries?

When you buy the car it'll have a range of 200 miles but a year later it could potentially only range 50?

You guys really need to stop publicizing this. It's not a helpful feature if everyone and their mother knows how to disable "find my iphone."

This seems a little absurd to me. If you go out on the road and listen, most of the sound from cars come from the wheels on the ground and some wind. You rarely hear engine noise unless someone is really accelerating. And hybrids already have that faint electric purr which is definitely noticeable.

BMW is just money hungry lately. First they slap an M badge on their SUV, then a useless 5 series GT, and now slapping a Rolls badge on a Mini?

Shame.

This is going to piss off a lot of Rolls buyers once they see their prestigious badge all over town on a bunch of Minis.

faster processor! faster processor! faster processor! pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

edit: cheaper than the Altima AND the Impala.

Not to mention it gets even better efficiency than the Nissan.

A for effort but F for execution.

I completely agree. Why not a Fusion Hybrid? This is America!

The Fusion Hybrid starts at 23,870 after the $3,400 tax break making it cheaper than the Altima too.

I really don't understand this move at all.