Re: New York Times Hybrid Article
I think all new vehicles sold should be at least capable of stopping and starting the ICE automatically, there's all kinds of ways to improve the FE of the vehicles on the road, consumers are demanding it, but the manufacturers are very slow to implement such things, mostly because they realize it will not improve the profitability of the vehicle. Unfortunately that's the bottom line, until we choose smaller scale production over large scale production we will be consumers of whatever they think we should consume. There's a lot of politics, religion and business involved in the destruction of important inventions that should have changed our lives, but instead are snuffed out. We could all be driving electric vehicles now if the plug had not been pulled on the E.V. Gray motor and the Tesla energy amplification circuits he was using. It's rather pathetic when you look back at automotive history to see how far we haven't come. It's good to see hybrids finally on the market, but we're still a long way from making a dent in the FE of the whole fleet, let alone cleaning up our massive emissions problem.
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