Why haven’t American auto-makers come up with more hybrid cars or small SUV’s, like the Ford Escape?
November 6, 2009 in Civic Participation
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younglieutenant questioned:
Why does it take the Japanese to develop more than 4-5 models of hybrids, before U.S. automakers even attempt to pick a model to place a hybrid engine into? Are the U.S. automakers tiresome to “Escape” (pun projected) from this newest actuality?
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In view of the fact that they have pressure from American oil tycoons. Look at your president! We have capability to have cars run on hydrogen but in view of the fact that oil public don’t like it, no one make it in splendid numbers.
Try lack of demand. The hybrids just place of protection’t spellbound on here in view of the fact that Americans are subdue in like with horsepower and the hybrids don’t have it like fixed gas burners do.
Don´t know. My main earnings of transport is my bike.
In view of the fact that American automakers are part of the conspiracy between themselves, the oil companies, and the regime. They are not about to waste millions of dollars to re-tool just to manufacture cars that are more fuel-efficient or environmentally friendly.
What incentive is here for American companies to yield anything that is cheaper; last longer, saves the consumer cash; or protects our fragile background? The equipment has existed for decades to make more fuel-efficient cars that can run on corn,air, or fill up (dredge up the Stanley Steamer?).
American corporations don’t care about anything apart from profit.
Pure and unadorned. They will only mass-yield hybrids when they see that they’re bringing up the rear even more market impart to the Japanese, or Koreans. -RKO-
hmmm. if all cars abruptly converted to the use of uncommon fuels, i wonder what that would do to the state……..of the planet…….
In view of the fact that the UAW is such a drain on American auto manufacturers that they don’t have the room to be leaders in their industry.
Automakers only yield what public demand,we will hold responsible each one else for life disadvantaged on oil,but lets face it,it’s the consumer that dictates it,it’s the consumer that wants that huge car to go around with all the luxury’s that go with it,the very same personnel that complain about global warming,air pollution,high prices and long lines at the gas rank,are the same personnel that have three or four cars at home,and each one in the Family tree tree drives one,even even if they force all go to the same place.
Nope not in actuality; more like Oil Company profits: Pressure from the oil companies:
the United States had both steam powered cars and gripping cars in the ahead of schedule 1900’s. PLUS THE UNITED STATES ALSO HAD HYBRID CARS ON THE MARKET IN THE Ahead of schedule 1900’s. It is not new equipment. It is over a 100 being ancient.
The Stanely Steamer held the land speed confirmation of over 200 miles a hour in the ahead of schedule 1900’s as well. No domestic combustion engine may maybe come accurate to it. Not only that but the Stanely Steamer and additional steam powered car on the marker then may maybe run on nearly anything that burned.
gasoline.
diesel fuel
home heating oil.
grain alcohol
Vodka
Rum
coal oil (as made from coal)
If it would burn they may maybe run on it. Huge problem with all of them! They did not use much fuel or gas to run on! Cost the huge oil companies sales.
Thankfulness to regime parameter it takes a long time to get a car (or any additional manufactured goods) to market. Not to bring up that you have to retool factories and that involves laying off staff (temporally). The unions don’t like that. They will but have to do something eventually in view of the fact that if they don’t give the public what they want the public won’t buy their harvest. Just look at how they are bringing up the rear cash now. They will lose cash until they yield cars and trucks that public want to buy.
I want to know when a name will come out with an engine powerful ample to tow a heavy load, but subdue efficient. I’m being paid exhausted of feeling like I need to defend my extent in vehicles; I need a powerful engine for towing. I reflect it may maybe be done, but I won’t be land my breath!
Plus, here’s this modest tidbit:
Fuel State:
Why You’re Not Being paid The MPG You Guess
Hybrids Honest Most terrible
Consumer Intelligence v.70, i.10 1oct2005
For being, automakers have been criticized for producing vehicles that get so-so gas mileage. But as gas prices climb and customers seek more miles per gallon, it turns out that fuel state is much of poorer quality than it appears–50 percent less on some models, a new Consumer Intelligence breakdown reveals.
Drivers who footstep their own fuel state have long celebrated that their results seldom contest the gas mileage claimed by the Environmental Protection Furnish on new-car stickers. Our study, based on being of real-planet road tests over thousands of miles, quantifies the problem across a wide swath of makes and models.
We compared the claimed EPA fuel state with the mileage per gallon we measured for 303 cars and trucks for model-being 2000 to 2006. Our selection represents a excellent place a stop to-section of mainstream, high-number vehicles. We looked at city highway, and by and large mpg.
Highlights of our study:
* Shortfalls in mpg occurred in 90 percent of vehicles we veteran and included most makes and models.
* The chief discrepancy between claimed and real mpg caught up city driving. Some models we veteran fell fleeting of claimed city mpg by 35 to 50 percent.
* Hybrids, whose promotion top is fuel penny-pinching, had some of the largest disparities, with fuel state averaging 19 mpg below the EPA city rating.
* The EPA ratings are the upshot of 1970s-era test assumptions that don’t tab for how public handbook now Automakers also test prototype vehicles that can yield better mileage than a consumer may maybe get.
* Even with federal authoritative recollection, it appears that U.S. vehicle fleets, all cars and set alight trucks bent in one model year, don’t meet regime fuel-state principles. For model, fleet mpg for 2003-model-year vehicles we considered was loud by 30 percent.
For customers, the news earnings that their vehicles typically cost hundreds more per year to run than they were led to judge. Place another way, when gas in Distinguished hit $2.37 per gallon, the mpg shortchange effectively boosted the price for some motorists to $3.13 per gallon.
Demand. Americans don’t want to buy it for innumerable reasons. My wits for not export one is cost. They are more pricey to hold and more pricey to keep up. In the long run, it is not cost effectual. It’s also a newer equipment, so many public are staying away from it. Plus, lower potential from it. Public want their high pony-potential, high tow room vehicles. Hybrids just don’t grant that.
For me, I’m thought my next vehicle I buy will be flex-fuel (E85).
Frequently in view of the fact that the price difference in a hybrid is more than the amount of cash that will be saved by using less fuel. (I did the math and determined that a fixed engine will be cheaper to run in the long run.)
Additional issues are:
Hybrid equipment has not been proven in long term treatment (will you be blocked with a lemon in 5 being?)
Hybrids only make implication for public who do a lot of city driving. Public who go back and into the planet on the freeway get of poorer quality fuel state in view of the fact that they are using gasoline to haul those heavy batteries and generator/motor.
American Engineers are too busy crafty shams to rip off the American tax $$$
Top a car for $100,000 a year
or
work for Bush and be able to make $9 Billion disappear in Iraq?
Hybrids have been shown to be a waste of time. Americans aren’t export, especially when they are priced $5-8000 more than their counterparts.
Have you ever noticed that hybrid drivers are overly smug while they’re chugging around in their tuna cans?
America vehicles suck…go look at the reliability intelligence. Just so you know most “American” cars are made in Mexica,Canada, or China. Most Japanese cars are assembled in the USA! I will never handbook American again…..pieces of crud!
give vs demand duh.
come on public when are you inane to gather?
Americans want Huge Cars with lots of pep so the huge three gave it to us.
Before the SUVs came along we had the problem on the run. For a long time no one would buy a V8. Most were full off the streets. Many V8s went to the junk yard. The 4 and 6 were the best sellers on the lots. Then came Clinton, he exepted the SUVs from Federal mileage principles and pollution principles. This was done by Clinton to help the Auto Industry contribute cash to his appointment. Americans like the SUVs.. They are the Current reputation secret code.
For the same wits that the pharmaceutical companies don’t have lower prescription drug prices: HUGE PAYOFFS.
Why has each self who has answered this question yet to be of me and told the truth gotten so many thumbs down? Unusual.
What do you reflect would take place to the oil company’s confirmation profits if all of a sudden, all ongoing driving a vehicle that may maybe run on an uncommon fuel source? This is not high-brow economics here. It is a no-brainer. And here is not anything new about THIS actuality.
The kinds of hybrid vehicles that are life bent now are a joke. If these ever came into wide use, we would be using up more energy, not less. The gas mileage has us so absorbed, that it is simple to overlook that these hybrids cost more to manufacture, utilize spiteful batteries that can chat the background with crashes and disposal of poorer quality than gasoline emissions, are more costly to repair. We would be using more gas by and large, not less, and have of poorer quality environmental impression. With the exclusion of the fuel cell, these additional technologies are a sham. The car companies know this, but they are forced into life politically assess. Soon ample here won’t even be any American auto makers any longer, as they continue to make a hash of their way into extinction. Oh, and by the way the Ford Escape hybrid is for city driving only; it gets of poorer quality mileage on the highway than in conveying.
well if the liberals would let us drill for more oil here in the US gas would cost less and if they would let us make more refineries and hybrids kind of suck now in view of the fact that they cost so much it would take along time to make it back i despise to buy gas but i need it for work in view of the fact that i give up pizza so i converted my Mercedes to run on vegetable oil
I dunno. I like my pick-up car… it hauls huge material better than teensy weensy cars… also, in view of the fact that my area is prone to flooding, I feel safer in my car than in a teensy weensy – prone to perched – car.
In view of the fact that the huge three automakers are proscribed by the huge oil wellbeing in this public. They would place a stop to any “progress” towards sinking our oil dependence.
In planet war II Japan tried to kill us with guns and ammo.
To-day they are tiresome to kill us with hybrids and SUVs.
We Americans must buy cars and trucks made in America.
The Japanese regime subsidizes the car makers in Japan.
The American regime taxes the car makers in America.
Speed and potential are weapons of destruction.
Looks and comfort are provisions for driving pleasure.
Here is not a conspiracy and the Prius proves hybrid cars ARE in demand. The Tesla Roadster proves you can get a lot of potential from an gripping motor. Hybrid cars are much better at carrying high lots in view of the fact that the gripping engine can yield a lot more torque.
US automaker CEOs disastrous to look forwards and did not give the R&D de rigueur. GM all ears on fuel cells, which potentially have stuck-up benefits, but are much more tiresome. Toyota took nearly a decade to make the Prius powerful ample to be ordinary.
Hybrid cars are very reliable. I have a Prius and it is incredible. My 45mpg average fuel state is far better than any additional car on the market. Yes it is lower than the EPA assess, and out of below it than a gas car. But, in % stipulations it is not. 5mpg less than 50 is 10% while 5mpg less than 25 is 20%.
The hybrid gears have an 8 year warranty, so the long-term reliability seems a moot as the manufacturer is inane to fix the problem for me. . . In reliability tests, according to Consumer Intelligence, the hybrids have done much better.