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Originally Posted by TheMooch
Actually, the California State legislature is in the process of REDUCING the number of the available all electric vehicles in favor of hybrids.
I've had a Honda Insight Hybrid for 7 years now. Love it.  |
I have a Prius and it is a great car with excellent mileage and very low pollution (unlike the new Insights although the old ones are better). A plugin hybrid is likely the future of electrics.
I am not usually a conspiracy kind of guy but in this case I do believe the oil company is behind the electric vehicle debacle of the early 2000's where all electric vehicles from GM, Ford and Toyota were withdrawn from the market. (The consumer demand is partially to blame but the test areas were too small.). There is an interesting movie made that documents the destroying of these cars. The battery technology was not the problem and that technology is current owned by .... drum roll ... an oil company since the end of the test time.
Having said that there is a great concept car from MIT that provides simple parking space rental for cars for city use. I'll have to look up the link but it looks like a nice car for niche markets like NYC or Boston.
Dale