What would an auto company need to do to get YOU to consider buying a hybrid/other alternative fuel vehicle?

Question

What would an auto company need to do to get YOU to consider buying a hybrid/other alternative fuel vehicle?

Answer 1

Too expensive and not that good of gas mileage. My Honda Civic beats most.

Answer 2

nothing. I'm already interested. And, I think figure out how to make it affordable. If it's going to save fuel and end the use of fossil fuels, wouldn't it be a hoot if somebody, (a Teenager probably, could figure out how to do it for $10,000 !

Answer 3

I am not convinced that the fuel is actually better for the environment and therefore not willing to put extra money into the hybrid automobiles.  They are considerably more expensive, therefore I am not going to see any cost savings in fuel.  So I would have to have proof or at least a really good convincing argument for a high impact on the environment.  

Now if we could invest in renewable fuels, like Brazil has with the use of sugar cane-I would pay premium.  I am very interested in these alternatives, however it is not available in the US yet.

Answer 4

if its an electric vehicle that resembles an EV1 or some other cool sedans and if it falls under the $30,000 range then i will purchase it.  until then I'll just bike.

Answer 5

Make sure it's not too expensive. For me it doesn't even have to be equally expensive/cheap because I would really want to buy a hybrid, but so far our family can't afford it. :(

We have a flexi fuel car though but in my opinion it uses way to much fuel for making me feel completely comfortable with it.

P.S. I guess the prices differs a lot for different countries. I live in Sweden.

Answer 6

They would need to build a Prius and sell it to me.  Done and done.

Answer 7

Make it practically emission free - including manufacture.

and make it affordable, we wouldn't usually buy a new car.

To the guy who was crapping on about volcanoes - its eruptions not irruptions. And that is a fallacy. (If you know what that big word means I'd be surprised, but I get a certain grim satisfaction from slagging off the git who is representative of the society which is responsible for the deaths from starvation, dehydration, severe storms etc attributed to climate change). ... they figured out how our atmosphere trapped heat two centuries ago and they have been tracking climate change from anthropocentric sources since the 1970's. That includes people who know how to spell eruption.

Answer 8

LOWER THE PRICE.

Answer 9

auto companies do noy want us to buy electric. too many side deals w/ pig oil.

we must demand they produce alternatives.

Answer 10

Make the d**n cars!  (And make them affordable, especially in the beginning market stages-I know, opposite of usual.)  I read an article in Business Week in 2003 that had a photo of the GM patented Hydrogen Fuel Cell but to my knowlege, they still haven't put out a car to bring it to market.  Well, I'm NOT impressed.  If they have made a car that uses it, it's a well kept secret...

Answer 11

im not gunna i got a 1968 dodge coronet with a 440 magnum 4 speed gets 11 to gallon but, i support hybrids but not letting me use oil isnt fair and plus hybrid cars got no balls

Answer 12

Lower the expense to a reasonable amount so I can obtain one without selling an arm, a leg, all my hair, and my little brother (though that might actually raise the fees).

Seriously though, I'm all for being green but I'm not rich here.

Answer 13

They only need to do one thing: lower the upfront purchase price of their product. I would love to buy a hybrid or other efficient vehicle, but can't afford them at their current prices.

Answer 14

are you lumping diesel into the 'alternative fuel' catagory or not?  if you are, as an alternative to gasoline, then id love to buy a diesel powered f-550 or something, but i dont need all that low end torque.

for me to be interested in a hybrid or alternative fueled vehicle, not assuming diesel, it would have to have the same if not more torque than my current gmc jimmy, better mileage than the 330 i get to a tank now, and the ability to not have to be stupid recharged as the electric weenies out there, and a cost range that can compete with the non afv or hybrid of the same catagory, i.e., ford escape was like 8 grand less than the ford escape E.

Answer 15

I've never driven a hybrid before, but I think one way to sell me on one is to give me a test drive and prove that it has good accelaration.  I live in a hilly area and drive on the freeway a lot as well.  My wife's Rendezvous has no gitty-up at all and I always feel like I'm going to get run over when I drive her and the kiddo's around.  Other than that, I'm all about the Environment... Compliance is my bread and butter!!!

Answer 16

Nothing I would not trade in my gas guzzling SUV for a stinking hybrid which I think is a load of c**p anyway. People are to worried about fuel consumption and polluting the earth. When in fact Scientists proved that nature puts off more pollutants in one eruption of a volcano than we could do in ten years. and as far a gas prices if we start using more the government will get off their butts and do something because we are not short of oil we have inland oil wells that are extremely deep but the environmentalists wont let us use them because of "global warming" but if we use whats coming to us overseas the government will shut the environmentalist out and open some of the refineries inland.

Answer 17

Speed. Cool Body Style. Range.

All of which is embodied in my dream car, the Tesla Roadster:

http://www.autoneato.com/tesla-roadster-...

But that's just me.  Some markets are keen on the price/mileage factor.

Answer 18

I'm already sold!  I just wish they were a little more affordable :-)

Answer 19

Make and sell them on the same basis as their noisy clunky high maintenance heaps they currently foist on us

Or step aside and let the future car makers into the market.

electric cars could have higher power & torque, cheaper to run, lower maintenance, smooth, smell free, fun to drive...

You can even make them as slow and ugly as current slow ugly vehicles (SUVs) if you want, see Toyota RAV4ev

but car companies spend fortunes buying the media (full page ads & journalist jollies) to stop people thinking clearly about electric or hybrid (eg why do people think a car with an additional high torque electric motor is less powerfull than one without?)

Answer 20

lower the price by 10 000 $