I smell ozone badly. I just know I have an electrical fire! It's a long windy road so traffic is spaced out far enough that I can start looking under my dash while driving....I look here...I look there....no smoke like my porsche did when i had a short circuit under the dash so i keep driving...I pull up over a hill and up behind the cars in front of me at a stop light...Low and behold I'm behind a Car and Driver Test line of 12 TOYOTA PRIUS's !!!!

Guys, YOU STINK!!! I WAS SMELLING THOSE ENGINES 1/4 MILES BACK AND THINKING I WAS ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Haha, smell of electric motors breaking in huh?

 

yup. that's it....Wow those guys smell!!!

 

Whatever polution they save, they make up for it with smell...

 

thats funny. my friend said he witnessed the very same smell.

 

Yup that just about says it all:

 

I had no idea they smelled....

 

Hell, if I could get 50 MPG I'd drive a skunk

 

I've got one you can test drive! He/she (shim) has been hanging around my yard at night, and my dog right in the face two weeks ago.

 

That reminds me of the time i thight my clutch died on a hill because I was behind a big sulfer smelling suv.

 

have you ever driven a prius? they are wierd... the tranny doesnt have park, but a push button park, it wont start unless the key fob is inserted into the dash, and you press the start button with your foot on the brake... it also has some wierd interlock features that wont let certain gears shift and whatnot.... i know this because we had one at my work the otehr day.... i got stuck in the parking lot trying to figure out how to drive it for 5 minutes....

 

"I'm smarter than the car, smarter than the car"..... j/k Jimabena

 

Sheesh. hehehe. I suppose they'll get it all ironed out one day but I'm pretty happy with my gas guzzling internal combustion engine.

 

Isn't Ozone a poisonous gas?

 

ozone is a triatomic very reactive form of oxygen that is a bluish irritating gas of pungent odor, that is formed naturally in the atmosphere by a photochemical reaction and is a major air pollutant in the lower atmosphere but a beneficial component of the upper atmosphere, and that is used for oxidizing, bleaching, disinfecting, and deodorizing

 

Are you sure it's not just some money thing that has been made up about oil?
Kinda something like, and excuse so that oil company's can SAY that they are cutting production of barrels so they can jack up prices, meanwhile having plenty of fuel to go around? All for the cost of getting my $1 a litre

 

hehehehe ok mr chemist! lol

Glad im not the only one who payed attention in organic chem. (I hated it, but I payed attention...lol)