Comments on: Auto Engineers See Slow Road to Green Car Future

By: TwylaSharmaine

TwylaSharmaine — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:58:06 +0000

Too bad that Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't the California's governor anymore. I liked the way he dealt with the green technology and he was an important lobbyist of the green car future. I had a friend who offers Class B Motorhome for sale. He is afraid that with his retreat, the path to a cleaner future will be obliterated.

By: moj_player

moj_player — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:30:22 +0000

forget about bikes…..
just walk…..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:32:29 +0000

Forget about hybrids. Fuckin ride a bike.

By: sean t

sean t — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:09:26 +0000

frank,
You think only you know that?
Buy a Hummer then, you'll be safer than in a ford f 150. Or even better, buy a dobule b truck... or a bulldozer.

By: frank febleti

frank febleti — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:09:07 +0000

The problem is even a prius is a 5 star car its based on its class.

If prius gets hit by a ford f 150 everyone in the prius will die and everyone in the ford will live

People need to realize that a compact car with 5 stars will always do worse than a large car with 5 stars.

The larger bigger car always wins unfortunately.

By: veeek

veeek — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:39:08 +0000

-We need an X-Prize of $100,000 or so to figure out why in the world Americans have such a fetish for huge cars in the midst of global warming, wars-for-oil, and dollars-to-terrorists.

-Note to Bill Cosworth: Yes, perhaps your Hummer will keep you out of the E.R. in a crash ("who cares if you die in the crash, as long as I am OK"), but if more people drove Prius's, several thousand American heroes wouldn't have had to die so you could fuel it with cheap oil. Cheap oil is just too expensive. Sorry to have to say that.

By: hybridgreg

hybridgreg — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:02:35 +0000

Anonymous, it isn’t as difficult as you might think. Gas was $1.50 per gallon when the INsight was released. $2.45 when the Prius was released and if you look at the dashboard 2009 you will see that hybrid sales did not drop as much as the gasoline cars did in December 08 and January 09. This means there is strong support for hybrids, even if the gas prices are low. But again, we are just getting this technology out there. Wait until the 4th 5th and 6th generations of hybrids it the market. You will be impressed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:43:02 +0000

While oil price is low, it’s quite difficult to sell hybrid or elerctric autos.

By: Carl P

Carl P — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:01:02 +0000

Go to the Raser website – the company is doing a lot of great work in the area of generating clean, renewable energy. With regard to their electric drive products follow this link to a video that will make you say: I want one, NOW!

http://www.rasertech.com/media/videos/the-electric-h3

Personally, I can’t wait for the electric drive system to show up in the Ford F-150 (My wife’s vehicle). It gives me a great deal of comfort knowing that my wife is wrapped in 2 and a half tons of steel as makes her daily commute in crazy California traffic but I’d like it a lot more if she was using a lot less gas.

Trains have been running on electricity for almost 100 years – ever since steam locomotives were banned – for creating too much pollution! It’s about time the concept was applied to cars and trucks.

Buy Raser stock, this company is a winner!

By: Samie

Samie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:47:18 +0000

hybridgreg good points I remember some people could not even make it to Baton Rouge or Hattiesburg MS.

Why not market EV's to the luxury crowd first. This is where GM has made a mistake also this gives car companies some padding in recouping loses. The important thing is to create excitement about the extra torque (power) not green value to the luxury crowd and that they are the first to move to EV's. Give them a ego boast and as time goes on you can develop better battery technology and cost efficiencies to move into the 20-28K market and on from there. I wonder why this can't be done some act as if you can magically sell a EV with a range of 100-150 miles and sell it for 22K in a year or two.