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To: longnshort who wrote (3823)	2/15/2014 5:45:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 4326

I thought I'd check some reality before answering your question: <where do you put the tent, sleeping bags, fishing rods and the canoe ?> According to this reality, forbes.com there are not many little cars which are popular in the land of the Yank Tank. That's probably why Qualcomm is starting with Halo in London, England. The Toyota Corolla, Ford Focus, Honda Civic, Toyota Prius and a few others are smallish, but they are certainly not little. Also, in the USA people have to drive for many miles to get somewhere because the legacy life that's lived is a long way from the everywhere else. But the Prius is already in the best-seller list so that's a guide to a trend. There are plenty of other hybrids too though not in the best-seller list. As with Cyberspace, the USA will probably be behind the curve. Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Berlin, Paris, which already have mostly small cars, will lead the way. In London, people don't have tents, fishing poles, sleeping bags and canoes when they go on holiday, which many do via a Ryanair flight to sunny climates. The USA is only 300 million people out of 7 billion, so they can be ignored as irrelevant. They can stay on gasoline, diesel, lpg, cng, methanol, or methane while the rest of the world buys my swishy new-fangled cars. Look at the top selling cars in Europe. They are small. en.wikipedia.org Japan goes small too: autoblog.com The Honda Fit has taken the lead from Toyota's Prius [note the electricity interest]. China, the world's biggest car market, is mostly smallish cars, including copies such as So it's hard for Americans to imagine a fast battery swap little car with Halo, or medium size car, would be any use at all to anyone. A three wheel single seater would be beyond their imagination. Some interesting pictures ideas and political commentary [about big government, crony corporations, "safety" etc] green.autoblog.com Mqurice