Why isn't US auto makers developing this further?
PostPosted:Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:44 pm
Solar-powered Prius
Hybrid's higher price tags are making them less appealing as a way to save money on gas. We need to find a way to make them cheap and use less gas. I don't see why we don't make hybrids that are capable of using multiple sources of energy: brake power, gas, electricity, solar power, food oils. The hybrids are designed to accept electricial input from a source if it can, so you can engineer it to charge the batteries with solar energy, and if it doesn't have any, revert to gas.
Hybrid's higher price tags are making them less appealing as a way to save money on gas. We need to find a way to make them cheap and use less gas. I don't see why we don't make hybrids that are capable of using multiple sources of energy: brake power, gas, electricity, solar power, food oils. The hybrids are designed to accept electricial input from a source if it can, so you can engineer it to charge the batteries with solar energy, and if it doesn't have any, revert to gas.