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Replying to: larsb (Mar 09, 2007 9:20 am) |
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Go Thee Forthwith and Purchaseth a Hybrid Car-eth Considering a hybrid vehicle? Now is the time to buy, according to Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information. There are four key reasons: -0- *T 1. According to Edmunds.com True Market Value(R) (TMV(R)) pricing system, average transaction prices of most hybrid vehicle models are at their lowest levels in history because the supply is finally beginning to exceed the demand. 2. For the first time ever, incentives are being offered on many popular hybrids. 3. Certain hybrid tax credits will be lower for those who purchase later in the spring, after automakers reach specific hybrid sales targets. 4. Gas prices have begun their seasonal rise. AAA recently reported that unleaded fuel is up 32 cents per gallon compared with one month ago. |
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Sadly Hydrogenics, a hydrogen research company in the Province of Ontario, has just laid off 50 staff. Their business is in electrolysers and reformers for the hydrogen economy. They also were working on a hydrogen propelled road vehicle for the US army. I believe they were connected to fuel cell companies on other projects. This is a very hard business to be in. One view of the feasibility of the hydrogen economy using electrolysers driven by solar energy is expounded by rorr on post #142 at the Hydrogen Fuel Cars forum here. T2 |
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A reporter for a weekend news program is looking to interview consumers in the Los Angeles area who are interested in purchasing a hybrid. Please reply to ctalati edmunds.com no later than Thursday, March 22, 2007 with your daytime contact info.
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Replying to: moparbad (Jan 19, 2007 1:47 pm) What does the tax credit accomplish? Reduced energy usage? Reduced emissions? This is not an issue about if you believe are hybrids beneficial. Assuming we've bought into that (I have) and If you believe that the government wants it's citizens to convert to clean cars (hybrids_and they must have) and thus offers incentives, then it makes no sense to take the credits away from Toyota and keep them with Ford, Nissan, Honda and others that enter the hybrid market. Don't mix market control with environmental benefits.
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Replying to: wvgasguy (Mar 27, 2007 9:46 am) Obviously congress disagrees; the tax credit was intended to move manufacturers towards building more hybrids, not towards consumers. Hence the 60K limit per manufacturer. |
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Hybrids have set a record for Mar-2007. Prius 19,156 Camry 5,144 Highlander 2,501 Rx400 1,471 Gs450 181 Toyota Total - 28,453 Accord 385 Civic 2813 Honda Total - 3,198 Total of 2 companies - 31,651 Still the sales of Ford and Nissan are to come. Those who claimed that hybrid sales are falling will keep quiet now. Toyota http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-03-200- 7/0004559051&EDATE= Honda http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2007/04/03/042389.html "Record U.S. sales of Toyota and Lexus hybrids have now topped the half-million mark."
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Replying to: yerth10 (Apr 03, 2007 1:00 pm) As one poster on another thread was opining... 'Toyota's hybrid sales seem to be struggling'....Huh??? |
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