Hybrid Trucks
Over thirty years ago America was in a gas crisis. People had to wait on line at gas stations just to be able to fill their tanks. When it was going on, politicians were saying that we needed to move to a more fuel efficient vehicle and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. This was way before hybrid trucks and cars.
The cries obviously fell on deaf ears in Detroit. It’s now decades later and the cars and trucks that have been made in the last thirty years are basically getting the same mileage as they did in the 1970′s. Once the shortage was over so was the issue of working on making a better efficient vehicle.
In December of 2008 the big three automakers went to Washington DC to ask for a financial bailout because they were about to go into bankruptcy. No one was buying the vehicles that they were building. The Japanese automakers were cutting into their market share and why not, Japan was making the cars and trucks that American’s were looking for.
In the last ten years or so, American families have been in need for bigger vehicles. Detroit started building SUVs that fit the needs of Americans, but unfortunately the price of gas had reached an all-time new high and the people could no longer afford the gas to fill the tanks of these vehicles. It seemed as those cries from thirty years ago were being echoed again.
So now there big three are working overtime to create the vehicles that should have been built twenty years ago. The hybrid vehicles are rolling off the assembly line at a higher rate than ever before. If you watch TV on a regular basis, you will see that the amount of commercial for hybrid vehicles have increased over the last month. It’s a shame that it takes the companies to come close to bankruptcy to actually start doing something about the situation. They were enjoying the success of the SUVs and the pickup trucks so much that they must have thought that it would be like that forever.
What ever the reason, let’s just hope that now that gas has dropped down to prices we haven’t seen since 2005, we don’t see the American automakers abandoned the hybrid technology research to advance the design of these vehicles.
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