Comments on: Confirmed: Toyota To Offer Solar Panel-Powered Prius In 2009

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:39:45 +0000

sas, you are correct that hybrids are essentially a ransom we're paying to the car manufacturers and Big Oil. We had fully functioning electric cars in California during the early 90s under a program that General Motors set up to fail.

Hybrids were something of a "deal" between the Clinton administration, auto makers, and oil companies and was also intended to fail. The reason hybrids have been appearing in the last few years is because Japanese auto makers at the time thought this would impact sales of vehicles and wanted to compete with the US. They didn't get the memo about hybrids being a joke here in the States.

Still, hybrids are better than nothing at this point.

By: sas

sas — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:54:45 +0000

so its not real?
btw, when are they going to sell a full electric vehicle? hybrids are good but they still require some petrol. sometimes i think car makers are bribed by oil companies so that we will continue using petrol

By: GT

GT — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:04:50 +0000

Um, the company has specifically said that it won’t confirm this.. so, this article is incorrect.