The#1Spot wrote:
35mpg is a rather low standard especially when they ave 13years to do so, but that is the US for you. By then japan/europe will have cars getting 80-200mpg average.
Depends, the car industry does a lot more than it has actually had to up untill now to try and improve on its energy consumption in its vehicles (broadly speaking). Besides, its not simply enough to invent a car that can do x amount of MPG, it has to be able to push the dam thing, how you gonna feel in your nissan doing 100mpg and barely hitting 20mph on the highway! Especially while being taken over by some guy in his petrol rover metro :\
People simply wont buy it, the only way to make them is to legislate and if they do that, we will all just stick to our current cars. Even if they did legislate that wouldnt work either since thats pretty bad for the economy.
Look at that total abomination (sometimes known as toyota prius), half the claims are false, and, for it to become a really economical choice, you would need to do truck driver miles in the thing to make it economically sound (ish). Even then, what isnt well publisied is how much more it takes to build one of those things compaired to a conventional model.
To make a point, a lot of these steps taken by governments and there committiees are quite narrow in there approach a lot of the time.
Martyn
Last edited by Bell (2007-12-20 15:21:30)