Comments on: Toyota Looks to Embrace Natural-Gas Hybrid Cars

By: Shelton Jack

Shelton Jack — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:01:23 +0000

I live in central WV where the MARCELLUS natural gas is thick. If Toyota is going to make natural gas cars, investing in natural gas seems like a good ideal. We the land owners have hundreds of thousands of acres, you can lease and drill. This will give you good incentive to make more less pollution friendly cars. If the Toyoya Co. is interested email me. you can have your cake and eat it to.

By: Shelton Jack

Shelton Jack — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:01:00 +0000

By: Umam Rafique

Umam Rafique — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:33:21 +0000

CNG driven cars are rolling in Bangladesh for last 6 years. We just insert a additional gas tank in the back trunk. It weight about 64 kg we need a extra suspension for support the suspension cost only BDT 1500. We run every kind of petrol vehicles in CNG. We run trucks, coach, suv and privet cars like toyota corolla x, toyota ALlION, nissan blue bird, etc. If we can run on CNG why toyota or nissan cant make it. Almost 80% of vehicle in Bangladesh run in CNG.

By: Umam Rafique

Umam Rafique — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:33:00 +0000

By: Richard Clinton

Richard Clinton — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:39:02 +0000

I am driving my 2nd Honda Civic CNG and I am very pleased with it. I travel all over Northern CA and live in the Bay Area, and so far the only place I haven’t been able to drive to is Mendicino, because the last fill up station is Santa Rosa, and it’s only a 3000 PSI station. I am retiring in Jan 10 and hope the new CNG Hybrid Camry fro Toyota has a capacity of at least 400 miles on a tank, since I want to travel cross country. From my research so far, there are CNG stations all the way on the southern route.

By: Richard Clinton

Richard Clinton — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:39:00 +0000

By: Frank Mondi

Frank Mondi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:10:46 +0000

This seems to be the solution – an electric natural gas hybrid and WE all hope that this car will be available in November as indicated, hopefully with the Stanford and MIT university developing iron – manganese batteries with silicon wires embedded that will hold 1o times the charge of any present batteries-be able to be charged in minutes and have a 400 MILE DRIVING RANGE ON A SINGLE CHARGE. It would be very easy to place natural gas tanks at every goline station with a rent to buy option and rayalities paid to gasoline stations along with fill units at every house supplied with natural gas. Of course, this is all premised on the rich and powerful allowing us cattle to have such an automobile.

By: Frank Mondi

Frank Mondi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:10:00 +0000

By: Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:28:44 +0000

Its good that there is interest, but where is the financial support?. This technology could easily replace the existing unhealthy institutions with much needed economy boosting power. We could even export products to other countries to help balance our trade deficit. Old fashioned yes, but good ideas die hard. It is unusual for the greed machine not to recognize a bubble to be made and exploited. As soon as they remove the stops, the dollars will roll in that direction. It may be that fear is still hindering the progress of better technologies by the investors f the World. Fear of some other persons success perhaps?. Typically until the established companies can control the new trends, they will be shy to endorse and embrace competitive technologies. When there is a conscious effort by we consumers and not just emotional based response, good technologies will be still be conceptually supported by the many and not be funded by the wealthy few. I hope it all happens before its too late to somewhat easily reverse the damage done by the inefficient industries that supported unhealthy devices. Thank goodness tomorrow is still another day either way.

By: Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:28:00 +0000