Increasing Demand for Hybrid Car

[ellis gibb]

Environment consciousness has been growing in the public and this is
what a recent survey shows. PULS, a German-based trend and market
researcher conducted an online survey so as to find out what the
public's preference in car is.
They have polled more than 3,500 people who have either recently
bought a car or is planning to buy one in the near future. They have
conducted the survey in the different countries - United States,
Germany, France, Great Britain, India, and China. The result shows
that a large number of their respondents would go for hybrid vehicles
and hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles over gasoline or diesel
powered units.
The survey shows 42.7 percent of the respondents will opt for a hybrid
car and further said that hybrid vehicles are the cars of the future.
The hybrid car got the most votes from the US where the Toyota Prius
is already making waves in the market and significantly increasing its
buyer base. 50.9 percent of respondents from the United States said
that they will go for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) over any other
kind of vehicle. Meanwhile, 46.9 percent of French respondents also
said that they would opt for a hybrid vehicle. The further improvement
in the Toyota Prius and the development of Honda of their hybrid car
will definitely increase the interest of the public in such vehicles.
Taking the second place in the online survey is vehicles with hydrogen
fuel cell technology for 41.9 percent of the respondents chose it.
This alternative form of fuel used in vehicles has received much of
the votes from China where more than half of the respondents see a
future where hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles will be the ones to
rule the roads. India's public also found these hydrogen fuel cell
powered vehicles the way to go in the future. The result of the survey
on these Asian countries contradicts the common belief that they are
satisfied by just using traditional fuel.
Other alternative fuel-powered vehicles that have received much
attention are those that use plant derived fuels. 38.1 percent of the
respondents think that plant-derived fuels will replace fossil fuel
which we are so dependent on today. Great Britain motorists show their
strong support to the use of plant derived fuels with 45.6 percent of
them giving their nod to these kinds of vehicles. The positive
acceptance of respondents in Great Britain may be in fact due to the
availability of cars in the European market which are powered by plant
derived fuel like bio-ethanol. Bio-ethanol after all can already be
used to power vehicles like some models by Volvo with FlexiFuel
technology onboard.
Of all the respondents polled by PULS, only 11.5 percent said that the
world will still be dependent on gasoline or diesel for our fuel.
Overall though, the result of the survey shows how huge the demand for
vehicles that will run on alternative fuels or will depend on
renewable sources of energy. Indeed, the demand has been growing
sharply that if the trend is like a car, the momentum it has would be
quite hard to stop and would take only a high performance brake to
stop, like an EBC rotor coupled with a high performance caliper.
Furthermore, the survey shows the way for car makers to see the
direction their consumers would want them to take.
Car manufacturers need to step on the gas to give the public what they
want and to sum it up, Dr. Konrad Wessner, owner and general manager
of PULS said "If potential buyers perceive a certain engine type to
have a capacity for the future, they will in turn prefer manufacturers
who are leaders in their respective
field."
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