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The Japanese constructors have discovered an effective method to deal with the increasing costs of the polluting cars: the hybrid car, a notion that was also adopted by some European constructors.
Surprisingly,15 of the earth's biggest naval ships are polluting our environment in excess of the 750 million cars that are on the road. It's unbelievable that one giant transport ship is able to dirty the environment as fifty million cars. However the government is having to spend their time trying to find approaches to reduce the pollution coming from cars in the city. Starting in 1990, Toyota started planning to develop a new type of car. They needed to produce a car that didn't pollute the environment. Toyota created the Prius which happens to be a groundbreaking car but hasn't caught on world wide due to the price.
The Prius has been wildly flourishing in the United States but has been experiencing tepid sales in Japan and in Europe. As an example, the sales for hybrid cars in Europe are less than 1 % of the overall sales, having a market share almost equal to the sales of the luxury cars with prices over 150 000 dollars.
In contrast to the United States, the European states continue to be not ready to adopt this change. The potential buyers are not motivated to buy those cars and often they are also high priced. The only "incentive" is the removal of a pollution tax. However the cost difference between hybrids and regular cars with the same size are pretty big.
Studies have shown that the type of people that drive hybrids are people like doctors, lawyers and engineers. These men and women are purchasing those cars due to the low consumptions. A good example is the Lexus RX 450h SUV which has 300 horsepower even so it uses less gas than your typical 1.4 liter car.
A lot of auto producers today have their very own lines of hybrid cars, like Opel has the Ecoflex, Ford has the EcoNetic line, and Volkswagen has the BlueMotion line. This may also be observed in diesel cars too. Even though the diesel cars are less consuming, they are mostly used for trucks because of the higher buying price. Surveys show that almost all Europeans rather drive a gasoline fueled car than hybrids or diesel cars due to the fact they are more powerful and cheaper.
In the beginning, the Japanese and Americans were not very big on hybrid cars after they were first introduced, like Mercedes initial line of Blutec models, which were considered cancer causing and toxic. However the trucks from the 80's exist on the road these days in Europe and in website and they create more harm than any of the newer cars.
The third era of Prius posseses an impressive 89 grams per kilometer of CO2 emissions which is considered the same as a Smart diesel car but much bigger. In addition the Prius is the only hybrid that can function on electricity only for 1 kilometer with a speeds up to 50 kilometers and all for a price of 30,000 Euro.