Toyota has just announced it’s planning on adding solar panels to some of their Hybrid Prius cars. The panels won’t power everything, but it’s a start.
If you found this article interesting or helpful, feed my energy with some caffeine.Car and Driver magazine in 1980:
The media are making all kinds of noise lately to the effect that electric cars are coming, that they’re going to help us kick our imported-oil habit, and that you’ll be able to drive them for pennies a day.
A company that can develop a non-petroleum-fueled car palatable to the masses stands to make a pretty good buck. That’s why GM will shell out some undisclosed number of billions on electric vehicle development during the next five or so years.
It’s a tall order, but GM is already well on the way to pulling it off. Whether the buyers will be there, however, is a question GM is still struggling to answer.
A study commissioned by Gulf & Western predicts that we’ll have something like 34 million EVs - about one quarter of the national fleet - on the road by the year 2000. GM … has publicly committed itself to mass-producing electric cars by the mid-to-late 1980s – probably 100,000 per year or more.
Sound familiar?? This isn’t the first time the auto industry has promised us greener, electric powered cars. Pressure must stay on the automotive industry, or again the promises might not be followed through.
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