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Toyota Prius has become the little car that could. The Prius has changed the auto industry pushing automakers like GM into hybrid suvs and the Chevy Volt. The Prius created competition in the automotive world.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The world will never be the same

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A few years ago on the blogosphere, the disdain for the Toyota Prius often seemed to out-weigh the support for the Prius. It seemed you either loved or hated the Prius, and the haters were just as vocal, if not more, than the lovers.

These days Prius haters are much more silent, or they've changed their focus. Instead of calling hybrids a niche technology, or an over-rated technology, many have instead begun to support the hybrid vehicles of their favorite automaker.

For example, some of the biggest hybrid haters have been GM fans, probably because many fans of GM have enjoyed SUVs and seemed to feel that the Prius was a threat to their SUV lifestyle. And, let's be fair, many Prius drivers do hate SUVs. So, the attacks seemed to become almost personal.

Today, GM is converting those gas-guzzlers into hybrid SUVs and, suddenly, hybrid technology isn't so hate-worthy anymore. Instead, Prius haters have become hybrid fans now claiming that hybrid SUVs make more sense than hybrid cars because they offer a much larger fuel savings. Moreover, GM fans are also gloating in the idea that the Chevy Volt is a Prius killer, a Toyota killer, a foreign car killer.

For GM fans, their beloved GM is alive and kicking and they are proud.

Suddenly, clean and green technologies are no longer talking points occasionally displayed in some never-will-be-built concept, they are the focus of a competitive race to the future.

Still, it was the Prius that really set this competition in motion. The Prius made consumers realize that change was possible. Coupled with Iraq, terrorism, high oil prices, etc. the Prius made consumers believe that change wasn't just possible, but absolutely required, and now - with the Prius as proof - there were no excuses.

And automakers have listened. GM debuted the Volt as a way to electrify the E Flex drive into mainstream America. Honda is increasing its hybrid efforts and striving for fuel cell hybrids within the decade. Pretty much every automaker is now actively pursuing hybrid technology, fuel cell technology, clean diesel, etc. while rethinking the Internal Combustion Engine with direct injection, turbochargers, and HCCI technology.

Largely because of the Prius, whole new generations of automobiles, using unusual combinations of technologies to achieve efficiency, are being explored and produced, and the best is yet to come.

Some day soon the significance of the Prius itself might wane, but the wave of change started by the Prius will be rippling through the automotive world for decades.

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" GM will never make a car competitive with what Toyota makes. Are people that dim to think that while GM is developing the "Volt" that Toyota is just standing still?"

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If the Volt plug-in hybrid vehicle is produced, it will create a signficant competitor for Toyota's hybrid vehicles. In fact, GM's hybrid cars might just become the industries best hybrids.

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