[Revolting cat!]

Takehisa Yaegashi, the inventor of the Toyota Prius recently said that battery technology and electric/hybird vehicles had reached their technology capabilities and that he expected new advances in gasoline/diesel technologies to surpass the mileage that electric/hybrid vehicles could reac

Hear the sound of the crickets from the U.S. media about this statement which is pretty radical considering the gummint policies, subsidies and propaganda. Nissan as well as Toyota have said "Sayonara" to the hybrid nonsense. Maybe Yugo will pick up the ball to satisfy the lone enthusiast above.

[usconservative]

Hear the sound of the crickets from the U.S. media about this statement which is pretty radical considering the gummint policies, subsidies and propaganda.

And yet I was told just above that my post was bullsh*t.

Right. I make this stuff up. NOT.

[usconservative]

Nissan as well as Toyota have said "Sayonara" to the hybrid nonsense.

BTW, I see you read the same article(s) that I did on this topic. Isn't it interesting that the American newsmedia is completely IGNORING the inventor of the Prius' statements that hybrid technology is pretty much at a stand-still, and absent a major breakthrough in battery technology (which hasn't happened in 25 years...) that conventional gas and diesel engines will SURPASS mileage and performance of hybrids very quickly.

No surprise, look at the number of reasonably sized & priced vehicles that now get 40+mpg on the highway. That's easily within spitting distance of the oft over-hyped 50mpg of the Prius, which seldom achieves that level of efficiency in America due to driving habits, roads, etc..