Hybrid Car Production

I recently came across an article from the website of apparently a premier car battery consulting company and sadly it predicts that production of Hybrid vehicles will reach only 1,000,000 by the year 2009. This despite Toyota predicting that 2006 total Hybrid sales could reach 400,000 and Toyota will notch up a lion's share with 180,000 vehicles. God help us if we just more than double in 3 whole years. This smacks of political influence as the global oil oligopoly is too concerned about demand levels for crude oil and wishes to regulate production of alternative technologies. There is no reason why with hybrid versions of existing models combined that sales levels should not reach 2m or 3m by 2009. People are not just taking a cost view of buying these vehicles. There is the inestimable cleaner environment and political neutralizing motivations. 1m should be a target for totally non-petroleum cars like electric and hydrogen-based. Here's the brief article that appears right on top of this page.....

http://www.advancedautobat.com/market.html