It seems that the vision of electric cars needing car hauling help getting across the country is going by the wayside, as we’re seeing a lot of plug-in hybrid packages hitting the showrooms and the exhibition halls of the auto shows. The Geneva Auto Show has VW showing off a Porsche 918 that packs a double-electric engine along with a V8 gas engine with 630 horses under the hood, When I saw that car, it looked like something that could go mano-a-mano with the Batcar with just a little extra tricking-out; when the Joker asked “Where does he get those wonderful toys?”, he must have commissioned Porsche to get a bad-boy toy of his own.
The Tesla Roadster is sporty, but this is green and mean. If people think of hybrids as politically correct and sissy, this might change their mind. Even if the 918 is out of most of our price range, the idea that the VW folks combined an off-the-hook muscle car with a plug-in electric feature will change how people think about electric cars. It will help VW in moving cars with plug-in options.
Concept cars don’t always make it into production, but this 918 could well be (OK, I’ll use the overused phrase) a game-changer. We may be getting to a critical mass where the electric car will supplant the straight gas car in a decade, where going to the gas station will be something you do for a road trip; that’s not good news for oil companies.
Source:http://www.detnews.com/article/20100302/OP...t-VW-conference
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