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For anyone interested in hybrids and especially those thinking about buying one, I'm delighted to see All About Hybrid Cars the new eBook from Grant and Reid.
Here in one place are clear, informative facts that people are looking for in order to understand hybrid cars. For everyone who's heard hybrids get much better mileage while having fewer emissions - and with no sacrifice in performance - this eBook demystifies. It explains the whats, hows and whys. Using non-technical language, it's right for most any reader. I'm confident that in several years we'll all be very comfortable driving all kinds of hybrids - but until that time, there's this eBook to explain these great new cars.
Helpfully, it's not only the existing crop of hybrids that are addressed here. The authors look to the coming Ford Escape, Toyota Highlander, Lexus SUV, and other offerings, sketching exciting hybrids likely to be big hits ahead. Too, they note the progress in hydrogen vehicles and fuel cells. The information they provide is timely and to the point.
Hybrid cars are an innovation that had to prove themselves - and have done so with flying colors. Some readers will probably be struck by how U.S. companies like Ford and GM were slow to offer hybrids - trailing behind Toyota and Honda. Indeed, the big U.S. companies had to license much hybrid know-how from Japanese manufacturers, which leads one to wonder why U.S. automakers were so far off the mark in failing to see demand for hybrids.
U.S. companies claim to be at the environmental forefront, with U.S. soldiers in the Middle East oil nation of Iraq, and oil prices unlikely to drop to $10 barrel ever again. I see no reason why American automakers aren't in the vanguard of a lucrative new auto technology that makes both ecological and economic sense. Plus with the added torque and horsepower these hybrids provide, they're a lot of fun to drive!
Read this eBook and you'll probably, and reasonably enough, be tempted to tell your friends their next car should be a hybrid.
Dr. Robert Wilder, 2004
Co-Manager, the WilderHill Clean Energy Index, ECO, www.WilderShares.com
President of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Institute, www.h2fuelcells.org
Faculty, University of California at San Diego
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