Tanner

Still, I don't think it's feasible yet to produce hydrogen on a large scale, but it's infrastructure that needs to be built so a lot of investment is required to realize this.

I'm thinking - not in my lifetime.

koz4.2

If I recall, all the added weight up front (the batteries add about 1000 lbs) significantly changed the handling of the car, and not necessarily in a bad way. It was a good start. The 911 is the perfect car to develop a system like this on since Porsche has been trying to compensate for the extreme rear weight bias in this car since before most of us were born. I'm sure Porsche is looking closely at this.

Koz.

koz4.2

Don't forget, there are other scientists working feverishly on ways to make you live longer. :-)

koz4.2

However, they do have to show the public that they are preparing for the future if they want to regain our confidence. If they had no plans for the future, they would be well and truly dead.

Koz.

koz4.2

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Tanner

I think as an interim step towards going electric, do what can be done now to significantly improve fuel mileage, and that's diesel. Consumers have been largely not willing to go to diesel because of "legacy" traits - noisy, stinky and meant for farmers. Price of diesel also needs to be adjusted so it's more aligned with gasoline though that might be difficult to do, otherwise, consumers aren't going to buy into diesel if they see the cost per gallon higher than regular gas.

The Prius and hybrids is nothing more than people driving around these things advertising to people around them that they're "thinking" green. There was a good discussion on this elsewhere about this on how people are trying to make a statement.....

Carmine_S4

I like it. Build the damn thing.

Spacecadet_CC

still too wacky and impractical to ever see production. Obviously this happens with exteriors too, and there are cars only ever designed for that futuristic concept approach. But most cars that actually make it over to production retain many of their exterior styling cues, but little, if any, of the corresponding interior cues.

B_S373N

normally i'd agree but i think the Audi Sportback concept interior looks bloody amazing

koz4.2

I like it too, but it's pretty much production ready unlike the usual "concept" interior.