Hybrid cars still have higher pricetags, but people (and manufacturors) are slowly but surely coming to realize the benefits of greener energy and lifecycle footprinting.
I voted yes, but I want to add that I think it's soon to be a thing of the past. It's so marketable right now to be "GREEN" that major manufacturors will jump on the wagon if for nothing else to make that buck. Especially when carbon footprinting becomes more publicly understood and applied.
It's all an economy of scale. We have viable electrical cars, but nobody buys them. Since nobody buys them, they aren't improved. Gas is convenient and batteries (the time it takes to charge them, most notably) are not.
Hybrid cars still have higher pricetags, but people (and manufacturors) are slowly but surely coming to realize the benefits of greener energy and lifecycle footprinting.
I voted yes, but I want to add that I think it's soon to be a thing of the past. It's so marketable right now to be "GREEN" that major manufacturors will jump on the wagon if for nothing else to make that buck. Especially when carbon footprinting becomes more publicly understood and applied.
It's all an economy of scale. We have viable electrical cars, but nobody buys them. Since nobody buys them, they aren't improved. Gas is convenient and batteries (the time it takes to charge them, most notably) are not.
how else do you explain the fact that its now 2008, and we still don't have any viable electrical cars? Its not that the technology isn't there!