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Automakers don't like gas/electric hybrids as they are more complex to design and manufacture than either gas or electric vehicles. Fuel-cell/electric hybrids
by jbms 7y ago
Automakers don't like gas/electric hybrids as they are more complex to design and manufacture than either gas or electric vehicles.
Fuel-cell/electric hybrids are a different value proposition and will keep going.
But they'll increasingly drop gas hybrids and jump to full electric, perhaps after the next generation of vehicles.
- RussianCow 7y agoThey're going to follow customer demand. If demand for electric cars remains low, they aren't going to abandon the types of cars that are selling really well for them in order to simplify the production process. And there are a lot of reasons to think that demand for electric cars is not going to skyrocket all of a sudden: range anxiety, lack of charging stations, gas prices being fairly low, the time it takes to charge, etc.
- jppope 7y agoHonda's Tesla killing fuel cell civic has a price tag of $300K+.