Comments on: Report Claims Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020 http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020 | Solar Power Adelaide - Buy Solar Panels for Your Home http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-124427 Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020 | Solar Power Adelaide - Buy Solar Panels for Your Home Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:37:33 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-124427 [...] a post on an IBM report predicting that all new cars will be hybrids (or electric) by 2020 – Report Claims Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020. A major new report has claimed that by 2020 all new cars sold will be hybrids of one form or [...] [...] a post on an IBM report predicting that all new cars will be hybrids (or electric) by 2020 – Report Claims Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020. A major new report has claimed that by 2020 all new cars sold will be hybrids of one form or [...]

]]> By: Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020 | Green Energy Panels - How to Save Energy http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-124180 Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020 | Green Energy Panels - How to Save Energy Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:13:44 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-124180 [...] a post on an IBM report predicting that all new cars will be hybrids (or electric) by 2020 – Report Claims Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020. A major new report has claimed that by 2020 all new cars sold will be hybrids of one form or [...] [...] a post on an IBM report predicting that all new cars will be hybrids (or electric) by 2020 – Report Claims Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020. A major new report has claimed that by 2020 all new cars sold will be hybrids of one form or [...]

]]> By: Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020 | Green Energy Global - Daily Green Energy News http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-123735 Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020 | Green Energy Global - Daily Green Energy News Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:47:08 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-123735 [...] a post on an IBM report predicting that all new cars will be hybrids (or electric) by 2020 – Report Claims Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020. A major new report has claimed that by 2020 all new cars sold will be hybrids of one form or [...] [...] a post on an IBM report predicting that all new cars will be hybrids (or electric) by 2020 – Report Claims Every New Car Will Be a Hybrid By 2020. A major new report has claimed that by 2020 all new cars sold will be hybrids of one form or [...]

]]> By: Tim http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-4836 Tim Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:30:53 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-4836 We'll have significantly less oil to support the auto industry by 2020. Perhaps there will still be hybrids and EVs made for the rich, but it's reasonable to expect a massive contraction in the market as manufacturing and delivery costs blow out, the middle class goes out of work and has more pressing needs than what status symbol they'll blow their pay cheques on, fuel becomes prohibitively expensive or unavailable, resale values plummet, and spare parts become scarce. Just consider America's inability to maintain its road infrastructure! How are you going to provide smooth surfaces for these vehicles when bitumen is unaffordable? Auto manufacturers are already on the rocks. It's rather optimistic to expect them to have the capital to turn out new expensive vehicles at historic rates and remain solvent in a declining economy. Reports like this seem to assume the future can look like the recent past with a few tweaks. It underestimates the calamity that declining net energy will cause. The changes will be sweeping, and there are much more interesting responses than technical adaptation of the most inefficient form of transport invented. We’ll have significantly less oil to support the auto industry by 2020. Perhaps there will still be hybrids and EVs made for the rich, but it’s reasonable to expect a massive contraction in the market as manufacturing and delivery costs blow out, the middle class goes out of work and has more pressing needs than what status symbol they’ll blow their pay cheques on, fuel becomes prohibitively expensive or unavailable, resale values plummet, and spare parts become scarce. Just consider America’s inability to maintain its road infrastructure! How are you going to provide smooth surfaces for these vehicles when bitumen is unaffordable?

Auto manufacturers are already on the rocks. It’s rather optimistic to expect them to have the capital to turn out new expensive vehicles at historic rates and remain solvent in a declining economy.

Reports like this seem to assume the future can look like the recent past with a few tweaks. It underestimates the calamity that declining net energy will cause. The changes will be sweeping, and there are much more interesting responses than technical adaptation of the most inefficient form of transport invented.

]]> By: Tim http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-26394 Tim Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:30:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-26394 We'll have significantly less oil to support the auto industry by 2020. Perhaps there will still be hybrids and EVs made for the rich, but it's reasonable to expect a massive contraction in the market as manufacturing and delivery costs blow out, the middle class goes out of work and has more pressing needs than what status symbol they'll blow their pay cheques on, fuel becomes prohibitively expensive or unavailable, resale values plummet, and spare parts become scarce. Just consider America's inability to maintain its road infrastructure! How are you going to provide smooth surfaces for these vehicles when bitumen is unaffordable? Auto manufacturers are already on the rocks. It's rather optimistic to expect them to have the capital to turn out new expensive vehicles at historic rates and remain solvent in a declining economy. Reports like this seem to assume the future can look like the recent past with a few tweaks. It underestimates the calamity that declining net energy will cause. The changes will be sweeping, and there are much more interesting responses than technical adaptation of the most inefficient form of transport invented. We’ll have significantly less oil to support the auto industry by 2020. Perhaps there will still be hybrids and EVs made for the rich, but it’s reasonable to expect a massive contraction in the market as manufacturing and delivery costs blow out, the middle class goes out of work and has more pressing needs than what status symbol they’ll blow their pay cheques on, fuel becomes prohibitively expensive or unavailable, resale values plummet, and spare parts become scarce. Just consider America’s inability to maintain its road infrastructure! How are you going to provide smooth surfaces for these vehicles when bitumen is unaffordable?

Auto manufacturers are already on the rocks. It’s rather optimistic to expect them to have the capital to turn out new expensive vehicles at historic rates and remain solvent in a declining economy.

Reports like this seem to assume the future can look like the recent past with a few tweaks. It underestimates the calamity that declining net energy will cause. The changes will be sweeping, and there are much more interesting responses than technical adaptation of the most inefficient form of transport invented.

]]> By: U.S. Could Cut Fuel Use 50% by 2035 : Gas 2.0 http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-4835 U.S. Could Cut Fuel Use 50% by 2035 : Gas 2.0 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:39:05 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-4835 [...] hybrids and reductions in vehicle weight and drag. In the longer term, the study concludes that plug-in hybrids and, later, hydrogen fuel cells may begin to have a significant impact on fuel use and [...] [...] hybrids and reductions in vehicle weight and drag. In the longer term, the study concludes that plug-in hybrids and, later, hydrogen fuel cells may begin to have a significant impact on fuel use and [...]

]]> By: TD http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-4834 TD Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:56:48 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-4834 There has been a rash of original-model (2001-2003) Prius batteries dying this summer in the South. The same phenomena is expected in the North this winter. Considering that replacement battery packs are $3000, you really don't want a hybrid vehicle if you live in an extreme climate unless you have a climate-controlled garage. Everyone *should* get at least 6 years out of each battery pack, but a $3000 repair is too much for a car that you have probably just paid off or are about to pay off. Sure, we hear a lot about how battery technology is getting better and better. But tall batteries still wear out. I bet you can imagine what happens in a completely drive-by-wire car like the Prius when the computer starts malfunctioning because of battery problems. There has been a rash of original-model (2001-2003) Prius batteries dying this summer in the South. The same phenomena is expected in the North this winter.

Considering that replacement battery packs are $3000, you really don’t want a hybrid vehicle if you live in an extreme climate unless you have a climate-controlled garage. Everyone *should* get at least 6 years out of each battery pack, but a $3000 repair is too much for a car that you have probably just paid off or are about to pay off.

Sure, we hear a lot about how battery technology is getting better and better. But tall batteries still wear out. I bet you can imagine what happens in a completely drive-by-wire car like the Prius when the computer starts malfunctioning because of battery problems.

]]> By: TD http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-26393 TD Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:56:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-26393 There has been a rash of original-model (2001-2003) Prius batteries dying this summer in the South. The same phenomena is expected in the North this winter. Considering that replacement battery packs are $3000, you really don't want a hybrid vehicle if you live in an extreme climate unless you have a climate-controlled garage. Everyone *should* get at least 6 years out of each battery pack, but a $3000 repair is too much for a car that you have probably just paid off or are about to pay off. Sure, we hear a lot about how battery technology is getting better and better. But tall batteries still wear out. I bet you can imagine what happens in a completely drive-by-wire car like the Prius when the computer starts malfunctioning because of battery problems. There has been a rash of original-model (2001-2003) Prius batteries dying this summer in the South. The same phenomena is expected in the North this winter.

Considering that replacement battery packs are $3000, you really don’t want a hybrid vehicle if you live in an extreme climate unless you have a climate-controlled garage. Everyone *should* get at least 6 years out of each battery pack, but a $3000 repair is too much for a car that you have probably just paid off or are about to pay off.

Sure, we hear a lot about how battery technology is getting better and better. But tall batteries still wear out. I bet you can imagine what happens in a completely drive-by-wire car like the Prius when the computer starts malfunctioning because of battery problems.

]]> By: Plainsman http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-4833 Plainsman Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:08:13 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-4833 Gasoline has been obsolete since the Clean Air Act of the mid 1960's. Ethanol has superior burn characteristics to gas and will replace it within the next 5-10 years (for a short video on ethanol see this:http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=190247). Ethanol from corn only uses the sugar and the carbohydrates. It doesn't use the nutrients. For every bushel of corn they get approx. 3 gallons of ethanol and 20 lbs. of distillers grains which is a better feed than corn. Corn is difficult for cattle to digest and is loaded with carbs and sugars. Expect corn farmers to increase yield in corn exponentially in the next decade. Gasoline has been obsolete since the Clean Air Act of the mid 1960′s. Ethanol has superior burn characteristics to gas and will replace it within the next 5-10 years (for a short video on ethanol see this:http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=190247).

Ethanol from corn only uses the sugar and the carbohydrates. It doesn’t use the nutrients. For every bushel of corn they get approx. 3 gallons of ethanol and 20 lbs. of distillers grains which is a better feed than corn. Corn is difficult for cattle to digest and is loaded with carbs and sugars. Expect corn farmers to increase yield in corn exponentially in the next decade.

]]> By: Plainsman http://gas2.org/2008/08/18/report-claims-every-new-car-will-be-a-hybrid-by-2020/#comment-26391 Plainsman Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:08:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=815#comment-26391 Gasoline has been obsolete since the Clean Air Act of the mid 1960's. Ethanol has superior burn characteristics to gas and will replace it within the next 5-10 years (for a short video on ethanol see this:http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=190247). Ethanol from corn only uses the sugar and the carbohydrates. It doesn't use the nutrients. For every bushel of corn they get approx. 3 gallons of ethanol and 20 lbs. of distillers grains which is a better feed than corn. Corn is difficult for cattle to digest and is loaded with carbs and sugars. Expect corn farmers to increase yield in corn exponentially in the next decade. Gasoline has been obsolete since the Clean Air Act of the mid 1960′s. Ethanol has superior burn characteristics to gas and will replace it within the next 5-10 years (for a short video on ethanol see this:http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=190247).

Ethanol from corn only uses the sugar and the carbohydrates. It doesn’t use the nutrients. For every bushel of corn they get approx. 3 gallons of ethanol and 20 lbs. of distillers grains which is a better feed than corn. Corn is difficult for cattle to digest and is loaded with carbs and sugars. Expect corn farmers to increase yield in corn exponentially in the next decade.

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