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Originally Posted by ConnClark
If it wasn't for this sudden tightening of emissions standards the big 3 would have beaten the foreign car makers to the punch with hybrid cars.
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The big 3 could've done exactly what they did w/ diesels w/ gassers instead. Sure, they would loose ~9-10mpg because diesel has ~12% more energy than gasoline per gallon, but I'm pretty sure a 50-60mpg full sized sedan would've been a great answer to Toyota's Prius. The big 3 have no excuse for abandoning PNGV. It's not like there's a patent for hybridizing a gasoline drivetrain as opposed to a diesel drivetrain. They were either deliberately incompetent, or just plain incompetent. Holding diesels to the same standards as gassers had nothing to do w/ their incompetence since there were other viable avenues for PNGV. As we can see now, T2B5 isn't a problem either for other manufacturers, so it isn't even diesel emissions standards that are the problem, just more of the same BS from the big 3.
