Electrification of the auto: Just a hedge against CAFE?
How many plug-in hybrids will automakers really build?GM's Bob Lutz has become a huge fan of plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. Nissan has been a hybrid bear, but an electric vehicle bull - at least in terms of talk and future plans. Yet, Honda, the cleanest most fuel efficient major automaker, has been an electric vehicle super bear, claiming conventional hybrid vehicles and then fuel cells are the solution (of course a fuel cell vehicle is an electric vehicle).
What's going on?
There is a whisper in the auto world claiming that while electric automobiles have great potential, automakers have no interest in a major conversion from gas to electric anytime soon. Instead, automakers talking electric have very specific plans to only make enough expensive electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles to balance their fleet fuel economy (CAFE).
Is the move towards the electrification of the automobile a real movement, or just PR and regulation-driven gimmickry?
Labels: electric cars, Hybrid Vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles
posted by Dahcredyns at
8:58 AM
2 Comments:
Yep, now that sounds about right on the money to me.
The Electric cars day will not come by way of the current auto industries like the Big 3, or any overseas companies eather really.
They will only come to the market place if independent people/companies build them, like Tulsa or aptera, or Phoenix.
The Auto industries are going to do nothing more then use electric systems to augment the gas engine to off set the price of fuel at the pump and milk the fuel crisis as much as they can, for as long as they can.
The auto-industries are not intrested in a real production electric car. Right now the idea of an electric car is the dream of everyone out there. The auto companies know this, so they use hype and propaganda to play on the peoples hopes, in hope of gainning prestege and sales of their hybrid cars. To gain funds from Government grants and tax brakes.
In the end, the bottom line is MONEY people. You want to know whats going on? Just simply put, FOLLOW THE MONEY. Then you will understand everything thats going on, and everything that WILL go on in the future.
Hats off to this guy. Hes on to their game play now.
At least Honda can be counted on as being more honest than the rest. That's one point for Honda in my book besides the fact that they already make and concentrate on making smaller, more efficient vehicles in general.
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