Comments on: 2007 Detroit Auto Show: Green in Real Terms

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:34:10 +0000

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By: Deidre Radford

Deidre Radford — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:03:42 +0000

You forgot the TESLA. I’m buying one. No more gasoline for me. I’m off the oil nipple for good. Tesla, in a little over a year, will have the Tesla sedan. Half the price of the Roadster and BAM! I’m in! I’ll be plugging it into my solar house, of course!

By: Andrea Iverson

Andrea Iverson — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:18:49 +0000

I’m always excited to see new hybrid cars coming out. Although I’m in college now and can’t afford one, I’m planning on having my first car be a hybrid. I’m already saving. I know others who are doing the same. There is a growing demand for them, and I’m glad to see companies interested in providing.

By: Ronin

Ronin — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:11:11 +0000

Like you, I was surprised by the lack of eco-friendly/hybrid cars in the show lineups. It is sad to see the waste that the reams of paper, plastic, nick-nacks and other “PR-junk” people dump out at the show. If the car companies were actually trying to make a difference they could have electronic versions of everything and save the waste for the after parties…

By: Gerry Woolf

Gerry Woolf — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:28:40 +0000

great on style, but a bit weak on substance..
the volt is doable but the battery is questionable in the timescale and on price..
check out Argoone labs and my publication.
http://www.bestmag.co.uk. I should have gobe to the show but your can’t be everywhere.

Gerry Woolf

By: CDurnell

CDurnell — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:11:18 +0000

Let’s get this right. John DiCicco thinks the GM Impact and the resultant California ZEV mandate are complicit in Detroit’s insistence on making the fuel-guzzling behemoths of the 1990’s? What? The reason the Suburban, Explorer, et. al. were being made is because they were popular at a time when fuel prices were at an historic low--in no small part because the U.S. federal CAFE standards of the 1970’s were met with the price ‘management’ practices of OPEC during the late 1980’s and 90’s. And Detroit couldn’t—and still can’t—compete with Japan when it comes to compact and small midsize cars (and full size cars for that matter), so they made SUV’s because they could take a truck like the Silverado, add leather seats and a DVD player, and sell it for 100% profit as an Escalade. Small, fuel-efficient cars are to this day still thought of in the U.S. as painful necessities, not desirable forms of transportation. You know, the kind of vehicle a poor single mother working two jobs would drive, not a suburbanite with a six figure household income. Detroit is still fixated on this stereotype. Why else would Ford still insist on not selling the European Focus in the U.S.

Sure, smaller, more fuel-efficient crossovers and small cars will make a significant difference to the world’s environment and energy security. That should be where we start. Efficiency is the mandate of the 21’st century. I understand where John is coming from. We need to be pragmatic and not think that the ultimate solution is somewhere on the mountaintop. But to suggest that we should stop pursuing so-called ‘game changing’ technologies is, I think, irresponsible. Sort of a baby out with the bath water argument. Especially for a technology so tantalizingly close as plug-in hybrids. A technology much closer than fuel cells will ever be.

I think John needs to get a new cell phone.

By: Dan Havrilak

Dan Havrilak — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:39:23 +0000

I was extremely disappointed with the 2007 DAS TV show. I had it Tivoed and was looking forward to the segment on hybrids. I watched the whole program, and the segment on hybrids never came! I scanned through it again, and the Veracruz was their idea of a hybrid. Full and pure hybrids were completely ignored.