This seems to be an ongoing trend with some auto makers. They run ads on TV showing these amazing hybrids, fuel cell, and low mpg vehicles but there is a catch. Most of the hybrids and all of the fuel cell vehicles they run in their ads are only concepts. You can’t buy one.  I went into one US dealer to check out their hybrid and it actually got less mpg then it’s 4 cylinder competitor.  I guess they expect the sheep they call customers to not notice that.

WAKE UP!

Some foreign auto makers are just taking them to school with these low mileage cars. Why can’t the US auto makers build an electric car? The thing will sell like hot cakes on Sunday morning. I know there is a small company out there (Tesla) who is making electric cars and I love them, because they are small their cars are out of reach of the average consumer though.

If one of these so called suffering US auto manufacturers would just make a electric hybrid (this is a electric car with a gas or ethanol powered generator to charge the electric system when needed) that could get more than 100 mpg, travel 40+ miles on a charge, and operate at normal speeds for today’s roads they would have a winner. They would not be able to keep them on the lot.  

These cars are not technically difficult to build. People sell kits to build electric cars in their own garage. In fact most electric cars these days are ether supped up golf carts or home made.  GM proved it could make a electric car many years ago (if you have not watched Who Killed the electric car? Then get it now) but they took them all off the market.

What are they afraid of? The time of the gas engine is ending and building such a car could quite literally save them as a company. Americans want and they need to provide it!