Why the push on hybrid cars into the market? Was it based on vehicle manufacturers producing for a niche market, or is it really because they care about global warming (is that fact or fiction?) and are trying to do their share to help us and the generations to come? Who provided them with the figures? The WHO, Greenpeace or some officially recognized environmental organization who worked with the automotive industry in collaboration?

Outside of America, people have driven smaller more economical cars which aren’t advertised for 0-60 performance and having 12 speaker sound systems for decades.
These same markets are offered cars which are more fuel efficient, run on diesel, don’t have useless outputs of power and don’t need double parking spaces to allow one to go get a scoop of ice cream or a favorite brew of coffee.

Why hasn’t the US consumer been exposed to the same offerings?

Perhaps because fossil fuels were never seen as an issue in the 50 and 60s and that mentally simply carried over into the present day where the industry is now playing catch up? Or is it because there was no need for efficiency back then?

Can one say simply adopting the same approach [of less fuel guzzling, resource wasting automobiles] would be less costly than the development of a car to run on hybrid technology whose price points are INSANE and aren’t really marketed across the board to the right segment of people?

Why a hybrid sports car? What’s next – a hybrid rocket, missile, jet fighter?

Vehicles have evolved with development to run cleaner since the early and mid 90s.

Is there really a lower cost of ownership to acquire and maintain a hybrid? Is it really being developed for those who commute the most among city dwellers or those who simply don’t even have a need for a fuel efficient car but rather buy into the hype only to revise their budgets to use saved money elsewhere?

Can the government help with more efficient commuter systems and mass transit options?

What will be the foot print left behind by these Hybrid car batteries later on down the road? What will happen when cheap markets mass produce unreliable batteries for these cars.

Why so many questions? Well why the lack of so many answers?

I still believe that without a much greater improvement in battery technology that hybrids as a real usable car are still far in the future. To me, the current crop of hybrids are a stop gate measure to please “green” people who don’t realize the cost to manufacture the batteries, or what we are supposed to do with them when they fail.