How to get people to buy Hybrid cars?
oriolesfan2323 asked:
Take the following into consideration….
How are you going to legislate this in a free country addicted to cars? Also can the auto manufacturers actually build that many hybrids? Also hybrids require large battery cells, what about their disposal later? Also, not every hybrid does a good job on gas mileage?
Arvel
Take the following into consideration….
How are you going to legislate this in a free country addicted to cars? Also can the auto manufacturers actually build that many hybrids? Also hybrids require large battery cells, what about their disposal later? Also, not every hybrid does a good job on gas mileage?
Arvel
December 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am
you also have to have them at a decent price…..
December 29th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Simple solutions to all!
Firstly, legislate gas milage requirements that only hybrids can meet (with the appropriate exceptions for heavy duty work vehicles). This has worked in other countries. There is just plain no excuse for buying a new vehicle that doesn’t get 30 miles to the gallon now.
The manufacturers can easily build that many hybrids. After all, they can build that many non-hybrids. The only real difference is the battery cells. And if you recycle those (answer to the third question) that just makes the whole process much easier.
I’d love to know which hybrids don’t get more milage per gallon of gas than their non-hybrid counterparts. It just doesn’t make sense.
Edit: after seeing the dolts below me, another thought comes to mind: Educate people as to exactly how hybrids work!
The battery doesn’t need charging. You don’t plug a hybrid in. When you brake, instead of stopping the wheels entirely like a normal car, a hybrid will engage a flywheel to charge the battery through magnetic induction. The resistance of this flywheel both slows the car down and charges the battery up. This is called “regenerative braking”.
And you, “Just me” you wouldn’t know a hybrid if it ran you over. Everything you said is completely wrong. Are you working for Fox News?!
Edit #2: The Honda Accord ******.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Make them cost-comparable to gasoline models. Make places where people will park for long periods of time have places for recharging. Nowhere has them now. For instance, if I have to work a 14-hour day, there is nowhere to keep my battery charged. If I travel for work and have to leave my car in the parking lot for a few days, what do I do about battery charge? Too many logistics to figure out before hybrids will be popular for people. You are right about disposal; if recycling can’t be managed, then it is environmentally not much better than all-gasoline cars. The harm will just be differently dispersed. Good question. We’re not really addicted to cars. It would take me seven hours to walk to my job (30 miles one way), so I must have a car. It is a necessity. We do not have public transportation where I live.
January 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 am
Hybrids are not the answer. There just not feasible in all parts of the country. There ridiculously expensive and will cause their own environmental impact. Plus their ugly.
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
To get people to buy hybrids you have to make hybrids people want at the same price as a regular car.
Hybrids are not the solution to the problem. There’s only so much you can get out of hybrid technology before it doesn’t save fuel any more. There was an uproar in the environmentalist community when Honda announced it would discontinue the Accord hybrid. These people made all manner of statements that Honda should keep the car on the market as the responsible thing to do. But the reason the car got yanked is poor sales. A corporation is not going to operate at a loss to better the environment, they’d cease to exist fairly quickly if they did.