http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=546 Personal Thoughts and Ramblings Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=546#comment-100 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:18:53 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2007/10/03/followup-friedman-sets-off-stink-bomb/#comment-100 Having read both of your submissions on this topic and the Times article, I can only conclude that Toyota is fighting this bill in order to keep whatever share of the light truck market it currently possesses. America, unfortunately, is still very much into its light trucks. I’m sure Toyota is already hard-pressed to maintain any sort of competitive sales in that area what with GM, Chevrolet, and Ford already having the “big, tough, American” image going for them. I would hazard a guess that Toyota’s main concern with using the Hybrid Synergy Drive system in those sorts of vehicles is maintaining the power output people have come to expect from that class of vehicle. It is sad though that they’ve chosen the state of their money over the state of the environment.

]]> http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=546#comment-102 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:18:00 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2007/10/03/followup-friedman-sets-off-stink-bomb/#comment-102 Having read both of your submissions on this topic and the Times article, I can only conclude that Toyota is fighting this bill in order to keep whatever share of the light truck market it currently possesses. America, unfortunately, is still very much into its light trucks. I’m sure Toyota is already hard-pressed to maintain any sort of competitive sales in that area what with GM, Chevrolet, and Ford already having the “big, tough, American” image going for them. I would hazard a guess that Toyota’s main concern with using the Hybrid Synergy Drive system in those sorts of vehicles is maintaining the power output people have come to expect from that class of vehicle. It is sad though that they’ve chosen the state of their money over the state of the environment.

]]> http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=546#comment-101 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:01:51 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2007/10/03/followup-friedman-sets-off-stink-bomb/#comment-101 I’m going to say I think Toyota is right on this one insisting on having different classes. A heavy duty truck does not acheive 35mpg, but it sure is much better for hauling a 5 tons of building suppoies from HomeDepot as to say 20 trips on a Prius.

]]> http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=546#comment-103 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2007/10/03/followup-friedman-sets-off-stink-bomb/#comment-103 I’m going to say I think Toyota is right on this one insisting on having different classes. A heavy duty truck does not acheive 35mpg, but it sure is much better for hauling a 5 tons of building suppoies from HomeDepot as to say 20 trips on a Prius.

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