I wonder if any of the Japanese or other major carmakers will have the audacity to feature any EVs at this conference, since they have gone well out of their to stop, and have succeeded in stopping, the making of any highway-capable EVs available to the American or other car-buying publics.
Even now that Toyota has deliberately needlessly ended its popular RAV4 EV program, despite the fervent protests of many of the few hundred owners, I have seen a TV segment in which a Toyota spokesman, touting his company's Environmental Efforts, included mention of their company's EV efforts. I believe that EVs are being excluded from the roads, and from virtually all energy policy decision-making, partly because they have worked all too well, not because they haven't worked. MM >http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nb20030124a6.htm >The Japan Times Online >Environmentally Friendly Vehicle confab kicks off > >The first International Meeting on Environmentally Friendly Vehicles >opened Thursday in Tokyo as part of global efforts to develop greener >vehicles and fight air pollution and global warming. > >Participants gathering for the two-day conference include >representatives from the United States, China and the European Union >as well as three international organizations. > >Major topics include how to harmonize regulations on emissions and >fuel efficiency, proceed with technological development for common >use, give users and automakers incentives through taxes and >subsidies, and provide support for developing countries. > >Promising EFV candidates include fuel-cell vehicles, next-generation >hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and super-clean diesel vehicles. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
