Ford Plugs-in to the Future

[LuckyTheDog]

Run time: 02:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZ3awzDf-o   Posted on YouTube: January 05, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 18, 2009 By DU Member: LuckyTheDog Views on DU: 546

 
I know this is a promotional video. But I am posting it here to show that Detroit really is thinking ahead.

[Ian David]

1. Thinking ahead to 2004. n/t

[LuckyTheDog]

2. Ummmm... No

Nobody has plug-in hybrids on the road even now.

But I know how popular it is to bash American cars here on DU.

[Ian David]

3. Ever since at least 2004, you could buy plug-in kits after-market from third-parties. n/t

[LuckyTheDog]

4. But how many

True plug-in hybrids are on the market now? And how many bought those kits? A few hundred?

Do you have the same level of disdain for Honda and Toyota over this?

[Ian David]

5. Yes, I absolutely hold Toyota and Honda to the same standard.

Installing a plug-in kit voids their warranties.

They should be selling and installing them themselves.

[stlsaxman]

6. Ummmm... No

Right- not since 1998 when Saturn/GM manufactured the EV1, the fully electric plug-in AND actually had 1000's leased and on the roads in California AND Arizona and the whole line of electric cars was killed by some nameless CEO at General Motors... and every single car was crushed and shredded by GM.

Not since THEN has "nobody has plug-in hybrids on the road even now".

The technology is here- but big oil and their friends won't have it!

WATCH THIS MOVIE http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

[stlsaxman]

7. Thinking ahead to even earlier than that...

http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/