A good article from the NY Times about the 2005 Auto Show and how the Big 3 are draping themselves over concept cars running in some kind of alternative fashion: hydrogen fuel cells or gasoline-electric engines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/bu.../20hybrid.html
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While General Motors struggles with a $1.6 billion third-quarter loss announced Monday and Ford braces for quarterly earnings due Thursday, Toyota is plowing some of its record $10.5 billion in profits this year into new fuel-saving technologies that it sees as the wave of the future in an era of high gasoline prices.
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Auto Exec's pass the buck...
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Someone is pointing a finger at Bill Ford saying, Why don't you make more hybrids? So he has to point the finger at someone else."
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Not everone thinks Hybrids are the answer...
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"Every manufacturer will have one or two hybrid vehicles in its lineup in five years, but the market will not go beyond less than 5 percent," said Helmut Panke, chairman of BMW, dismissing hybrids as a niche technology.
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