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Different Roads To Eco-Friendly Vehicles
By Mr Ethanol | May 22, 2007
Financial, technical resources dictate how makers build cars of the future.
The Japan Times:
Hybrids, plug-in hybrids, diesel-powered cars, vehicles running on ethanol and fuel-cell cars — these are among the major environment-friendly vehicles under development to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, a major cause of global warming.
While making fuel-cell vehicles commercially viable in the near future is believed almost impossible due to technical hurdles, hybrids have steadily expanded their presence since Toyota Motor Corp.’s Prius, the world’s first commercially mass-produced hybrid, was launched in 1997. Global sales of all of Toyota’s hybrid vehicles exceeded 1 million earlier this month.
Other major Japanese automakers are also pursuing various environment-friendly technologies including hybrids, but their strategies differ depending on their budgets and market position.
“(Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co.) are well aware that they can’t match Toyota even if they pursue the same course as Toyota,” said Yukio Sato, a senior researcher at market research firm Industrial Structure General Research Institute Ltd.
Toyota, the world’s most profitable automaker, has abundant cash to pour into the development of various technologies, but others with limited resources “will have to take differentiating strategies,” Sato said.
While Toyota pushes the gasoline-electric hybrid system as a core environmental technology, Honda, which has its own hybrid technology, is less keen on hybrid and places more emphasis on developing cleaner diesel engines.
Hybrid vehicles in general are two times more fuel efficient than gasoline cars, while diesel engines are about 30 percent more fuel efficient than conventional gasoline engines.
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