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To: tejek who wrote (386303)	5/25/2008 6:04:01 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578303

>> That's sounds good but I am not so sure it will happen as fast as you seem to think. Toyota is the biggest producers of hybrids. Their Prius has been on the market for at least 3 years and they just celebrated their millionth car in the world. Frankly, that's a drop in the bucket. There has been no motivation to buy a Prius. With gas at $2-3, you can't justify the increased expenditure for the car. And they are ugly as hell. With gas at $4-6, they get a lot more interesting. But I think we'll see a flooding of the market with reasonably performing electrics before hybrids REALLY take off. Electrics are the ultimate solution, since they can be charged in off-peak hours where the capacity is already there but sitting idle. Once a solution to making Hydrogen cost effectively is devised, a transition to fuel cells is straightforward. Even with $4 gas, fuel cells probably are very attractive alternatives.