It is an age-old rule of business that you have to give what the customers want before seeking what you want from the customers. If you want lots of profits, you cannot expect the customer to give this to you as a precondition of your service or product. Just take the example of Henry Ford and the manner in which he popularized the automobile in America. When he introduced the assembly line system, he quickly realized that the customer base in America that could afford automobiles was not very high. In such a scenario, it was obvious that the huge volumes of production would not result in high profits.
Purchasing backgammon sets made of new materials or with the help of a new technology is not a big deal. If you decision does not work out, you can always skip the set and go in for a traditional set all over again. You can try selling the set to a friend or relative or simply dump it into the garbage can. You cannot do that with a hybrid car, can you? This is probably the reason why hybrid cars are not becoming very popular.
Hybrid cars are the need of the hour and people who think that it is just a trick played by the car manufacturers to make more money are in for a surprise, since that’s not the case. Transportation is only going to get more and more pollution free and this is for the good of the planet.
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Off-roading vehicles, which require four-wheel drive, are known for being gas guzzlers. Off-roading fans concerned with rising gas prices can rejoice in the fact that the Austrian car manufacturer Magna Steyr has built the MILA Alpin, a new eco-friendly 4×4 concept car.
Magna Steyr manufacturers almost a quarter of a million cars annually, but is not well-known because it builds cars for other automakers, like BMW, Chrysler, Jeep, Mercedes-Benz and Saab.
Hybrids have come in for a lot of criticism in recent months. The Mail online even ran a story spotlighting a rare incident in the US where a hybrid had been left to charge overnight in a couple’s garage only for the house to burn down a few hours later. The fact that fire fighters could only speculate as to the probable cause of the fire shows that a lot of the negative press has been propaganda.
Hybrids may not be the best that they can be yet, but that is only because of the oil industry at large holding back technological progress and maintaining a strange-hold on the market. It is common knowledge that many oil companies own the patents and technology for greener energy production. The reason the general public have not had access to this technology is because of the oil companies'reluctance to let go of a market they completely control. With hybrids becoming more and more popular it is only a matter of time before someone outmanoeuvres the oil industry and produces cleaner fuel.
A definite pro of hybrid cars is the ability to gain internet access whilst you’re driving one. Many models are now coming with roaming Wi-Fi access installed as standard allowing drivers and passengers to browse the net whilst travelling. The roaming charges are not the best, but by thinking ahead an alternative worldwide roamig sim card can be inserted into a USB add-on and used to access the web whilst driving. This can be very handy if cash flow is an issue. The only con to the use of the internet in the car is the drain it can have on the hybrid’s battery. With hybrid’s taking usually several hours at best to charge, a faster drain on the vehicle’s battery is not a desirable option.
Another pro to hybrid technology lies obviously in its lack of CO2 emissions. However critics have counterbalanced that argument. The chargers required for hybrid cars run off mains electricity. If the mains electricity comes from fossil fuel power sources then it is hard to say that hybrids don’t produce CO2 emissions. They may not produce them on the road, but if powered off fossil fuel resources then they are indirectly as responsible for CO2 emissions as a normal petrol engine.
Hybrids are one of the best additions to the automotive industry in recent years. Whilst there is a way to go before completely green energy sources are made available, hybrids show a positive step in the right direction.
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