Why Is It So Hard To Build A Fuel-Efficient Vehicle?
Saturday, January 28th, 2012At least one third of new car buyers in America considered fuel economy an important factor.. In 1992 previously General Motors built a vehicle that got 100 miles to the gallon – and all these years later on one of people’s major concerns on top of global warming and pollution is dependence on foreign oil. An additional automobile, the GM TPC, which looked a lot like the Geo Metro, weighed only 1000 pounds and could easily get 75 miles per gallon. Unfortunately, in order to meet American safety regulations, the 3-cylinder vehicle required reinforcement weighing 200 pounds, which led to further development being discarded.
It really is rather shocking that this had not been the only GM prototype that was built, only to be thrown out later. A number of these were the 1982 GM Lean Machine which made 80 miles per gallon, and the GM Ultralite which managed to do 100 mpg. In 1992 Honda had been attaining 50 miles per gallon with the Civic VX, and at the same time General Motors had vehicles behind the scenes getting 100 MPG, even though selling the public cars that were getting 20 MPG. Since cars have already been built that get 100 miles per gallon, then why are they not being sold to the general public?
Why are traditional vehicles sold in the US, while at the same time, the same companies are selling different vehicles far away in other countries? For quite a while automobiles that get over 70 miles per gallon have been available in Japan and Europe. The Lupo, a Volkswagen, is an ideal instance of a car that gets 78 MPG, but hasn’t been sold in the US. Honda launched to the US marketplace in 2007, a car known as the Fit, but known as the Jazz in other parts of the world. The Jazz in Japan has ways to boost fuel economy and a smaller engine, but for the US, the Fit doesn’t even have a smaller engine as an option.
The automobile producers tell Americans that they love big cars, and that is what they want to create big cars. Needless to say they generate big money on SUVs, and practically nothing on a small two-person commuter. Commercials have convinced the citizens of the US that Tanks on Wheels are an absolute must to have. Because options have never been presented reveals where the big companies have their interests. The top in fuel economy may have been General Motors, but they prefer to remain the leader in SUVs instead. All of the other car manufacturers did the same thing by producing fuel-efficient cars, but then denied them to Americans.
American auto manufacturers haven’t ever given the US people an opportunity to acquire a fuel-efficient car, despite the world having beem embroiled in oil wars and being severely polluted. Ask this question: how many people who were never given the opportunity would have been excited to have a car that was fuel-efficient? Could it be time to retrieve those discarded designs and, again, start building those vehicles that were once built a long time ago?
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