The high demand for electric and hybrid vehicles during the recent months has been strong despite predictions that the lower oil and fuel prices would reduce the favorability of such vehicles. Tesla Motors, recently unveiled its much anticipated Model S sedan and also announced that it had received 520 reservations for it. Persu Mobility (www.persumobility.com) has designed a revolutionary two-passenger, three-wheel vehicle based on a proprietary tilting technology and has more than 19,000 registrations for its product, planned to be mass produced in 2012.
Such trends indicate that consumers’ desire for clean and alternative transportation is not formed solely based on price. Energy independence and environmental conservation play instrumental roles in shaping our preferences. There is also a movement in the US that has mobilized the masses towards awareness of the reality of global warming and the role that the US economy plays both in generating greenhouse gasses and in potentially solving the problem.
The first steps towards a green tomorrow are now being taken. Future decades will take us closer to sustainable development and today’s startups will become conglomerates of future supplying our energy and eco-friendly products.
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You raise a good point. I think that we need to embrace this issue as one of safety and longevity and accept the fact that it will be more expensive in the short run but we have to do it. Like all other things costs will come down over the long run but we have to step up and move to these technologies now.
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