"Hybrid cars" is really French for, "One way or another, we gotta keep the gas and the gasoline engine in our cars or we'll go out of business." The Big Three U.S. Automakers, Honda and Toyota are all guilty of keeping the gas and gasoline engines in their cars, instead of producing all-electric vehicles. GM and Chrysler admitted on their own websites they couldn't produce an "alternative vehicle" for less than $40,000 and make a profit; in fact, they don't even offer an all-electric production vehicle; GM's Chevy Volt rolls only 40 miles on electricity before the gas kicks in - yet it costs more than $40,000.
"Hybrid Vehicles" are for oil & gas producers, U.S. automakers and parts suppliers; hybrids are NOT America's answer to greenhouse gases and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
The concept of a hybrid vehicle being environmentally-safe is wrong, ill-conceived, inapplicable and just plain not true. "Hybrid cars" is really French for, "One way or another, we gotta keep the gas and the gasoline engine in our cars or we'll go out of business." The Big Three U.S. Automakers, Honda and Toyota are all guilty of keeping the gas and gasoline engines in their cars, instead of producing all-electric vehicles. GM and Chrysler admitted on their own websites they couldn't produce an "alternative vehicle" for less than $40,000 and make a profit; in fact, they don't even offer an all-electric vehicle; GM's Chevy Volt rolls only 40 miles on electricity before the gas kicks in - yet it costs more than $40,000.
GM. FORD, Chrysler, Honda and Toyota all KNOW and REALIZE they must NEVER produce, promote and sell an all-electric vehicle, because if they do, they will kill their usual profit margins, kill their suppliers and the parts business; a gasoline engine has over 1,000 moving parts; parts that wear out, parts that break, parts that costs lots of money; parts that use oil and gasoline;
The electric propulsion system in an all-electric vehicle has very, very few moving parts; consequently, much less to break, much less to go wrong, much fewer parts sales, much fewer parts suppliers, NO gas and oil sales, much smaller profit margins to be made on fewer parts.
The old paradigms just don't apply; These U.S. gasoline automakers have no intention whatsoever of EVER mass-producing an all-electric vehicle; these corporations have been intentionally misleading the American public and Congress into thinking "hybrid vehicles" is THE solution - a solution "good enough" for our environment; well, it's just not true.
Hybrid vehicles ARE gasoline-burning, oil-burning, greenhouse gas plants on wheels. Gas, gas, gas, oil, oil, oil, go,go,go, burn, burn, burn.
Hybrid vehicles KEEP America DEPENDENT on foreign oil and gas.
Most hybrids — including those from Toyota and Ford — use a combination of parallel- and series-hybrid power so that they operate on internal combustion power most of the time, solely on electric power under certain conditions, and under both internal combustion and electric power in high-load conditions, such as intense acceleration or when climbing hills.
Honda's Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) system used in the Insight, Accord Hybrid and 2003-2005 Civic Hybrid typifies a parallel hybrid configuration, in which an internal combustion engine provides primary power with an electric motor supplying additional power during times of high demand.
The electric motor never powers the car on its own.
Hybrid vehicles are NOT the solution to America's problems of auto pollution and America's dependence on foreign oil.
Hybrid vehicles SOLVE U.S. automakers and parts suppliers' need to keep gas and a gasoline engine in America's cars. All that matters to them is to keep gas flowing and burning in the gasoline engines they sell.
America needs all-electric vehicles, in order to seriously reduce greenhouse gas emissions and end America's dependence on foreign oil. Hybrid vehicles do virtually NOTHING towards these ends.
