| Feature
Story
-->>Hybrid
Buyer's Club
|
|
November 29, 2004
While promoting hybrid
vehicles, I have often used "the future" as an
argument.
For example, recently, a friend of mine questioned my
hybrid piousness.
"Why should I
have to pay extra for new technology," he asked?
|
Pollution and terror wars
were cited, but my friend still wasn't buying. He agreed
that it was good to address these things, but wasn't
sure how much he thought autos addressed such issues.
"It's the future," I told him. "The fuel
cell cars of the future will be hybrids."
|
Click
Here
for More
Hybrid Car
Info.
|
"So, why not decrease
foreign-oil dependency, significantly reduce pollution,
and lead the automotive world in the technology of the
future," I asked?
Now, my friend completely agreed, and we are not the
only ones.
Recently, in a Motor Trend article, Frank Markus not
only acknowledges, as do most auto analysts, that the
hydrogen/fuel cell economy is the future, he notes
"These fuel-cell vehicles will be hybrids, uniting
hydrogen and air as a primary means of generating
electricity, but relying on some sort of onboard energy
storage device as backup."
This view isn't only the view of analysts, but auto
executives themselves, and Markus states, "It
stands to reason that the company with the most
experience tuning and integrating gas/electric hybrids
may be the in the best position to design and develop
fuel-cell vehicles that drive like normal cars and
trucks once the technology matures and the
infrastructure comes online."
The fact that American automakers have not taken this
path, that they are not leaders in making America a
better place, is really quite sad.
Join
the hybrid car buyer's club to stay informed on hybrid
availability.
>>
Blog on this subject.
|
|
More Stories
|
|
|
|
