Hybrid rework
General Motors will stop making Chevrolet Malibus (right) and Saturn Auras with an early generation gas-electric hybrid engine system, but engineers are working on a more efficient version of the system, a company spokesman said last month. The company plans to have 14 gas-electric hybrids on the market by the end of 2012.
Mass expansion
It took Toyota almost nine years to sell one million hybrid vehicles globally, but a new report by JPMorgan indicates that 11.28 million hybrids will be sold every year by 2020, roughly 23 times greater than today's sales levels. If that tally holds, hybrids will own a 13.3-percent share of the global auto market and 19.4 percent of the U.S. market.
--Associated Press, Wheelbase Communications
4 Comments
By darto55 on July 18, 2009 5:37 PM
Here is the factual evidence that nobody wants a stupid hybrid:
top-selling vehicles for June
1. Ford F-series: 35,915
2. Toyota Camry/Solara: 26,394
3. Chevrolet Silverado: 24,766
Hybrids were not even in the top 10. Not only do people not want tin box hybrids, but two out of the three topselling vehicles were big trucks.
The only people that want us to have hybrids are government controlled media that keep trying to lie about it and force them down our throats.
By Kenny on July 21, 2009 10:21 AM
Automakers need to come out with more Diesel options.
•A U.S. EPA analysis found that if one-third of Americans fueled their cars, pick-ups and SUVs with clean diesel instead of gasoline, the United States could send back 1.5 million barrels of foreign oil per day.
•One drop of diesel fuel has 12% more power than one drop of gasoline.
•TDI clean diesel engines reduce carbon emissions by 20% over gasoline engines.
•If one-third of Americans switched from gasoline to clean diesel, it would be the equivalent of planting 2.2 billion trees.
By Haley's Comet on July 21, 2009 2:57 PM
A Ford Hybrid gets 35 mpg. You can already buy a little Jap car that gets as good or better mileage without paying for the additional hybrid technology.
Ford: The We Still Don't Have a Clue But We Think You Are Dumb Enough to Buy It Motor Company.
By John on July 23, 2009 4:20 AM
Not trying to be funny but why not combine the thoughts of darto55 and Kenny, and build a diesel hybrid pickup?
I appreciate the capabilities of a pickup. But many, if not most, trips in a pickup don't utilize that capability and yet are burdened with poor mileage. For these trips the hybrid system would make a difference. And then, for those occasions where the pickup is used for towing or hauling, the diesel alone would provide the requisite power.
If the market for pickups is this large then the cost adder per unit could be made reasonable.