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Right now, Toyota Prius is the most economic hybrid car available on US auto market rivaled by a Honda Civic hybrid. Although the Honda Insight is much more fuel efficient car, given that you actually mange to find one for sale. Neither of these 3 cars really qualify to be a “green” car as the still produce CO2 and other green-house gases by burning gasoline in their internal combustion engine.
There were truly green, all-electric cars in the US available for lease 10-11 years ago, but corporate greed of Oil Companies, GM, and others involved, as well as unwise decisions by Energy Conversion Devices to sell NiMH battery technology to Texaco – those circumstances effectively killed that effort, put the working technology in the locked-up back room and crushed the beautiful machines. They would not even sell them to people falling in love with 100% green transportation.
But that was 10 years ago. Today we are living in the worst financial and economic crisis since the great depression and it is only the beginning. In a state of the economy today we can see oil prices going up from $80 to $147 and than crushing back to $52 per barrel, all within a 12-month period. We are living in times when corporate greed brought the Big three America auto-makers to their knees and now the Biggest one of them – GM, is on the brink of bankruptcy, with Chrysler not far behind.
Today we have more options than we did 10 years ago. Car companies are desperately looking to sell their products, and Green is hotter than ever. Unfortunately there is still very few choices for an Ultimate Green Machine – on one hand we have a multitude of hybrids, which are not all that green. We also have a couple of fuels-cell models, but they are so costly to produce that you can’t really get one, and even if you do, it is only a 3 year lease. Another problem is the lack of infrastructure, as was the case with electric cars, so you are pretty much limited to getting on ONLY in California.
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April 27 2008 01:49 pm
Squeezing all the mileage out of your Hybrid - Embrace "grandma's" driving style on 20 Nov 2008 at 10:05 am #
[...] Despite the above 3 reasons, Volt looks better IMHO and specs-wise it has 40 mile battery range vs. Prius’ 15 miles. Past that, I’m not sure of Volts fuel efficiency, so lets wait and see. Maybe Honda will also make a Plug-In car, and we will actually have some real competition in that segment. I will post updates about my Civic’s fuel economy and Plug-In Hybrids. [...]