The Impact of Hybrid Cars on the Automotive Industry

Why people want to drive hybrid cars? "We only have one planet," said actor Kevin Bacon to the question why he was driving the Toyota Prius hybrid. "We have to protect this one."

Besides being environmentally friendly, these cars are fun to drive too.

And for us Google fans, the reason to drive one might be because Larry Page and Sergey Brin - the founders of Google - drive a Toyota Prius.

More and more people are buying hybrids instead of traditional cars, reducing the average costs of producing a hybrid car, making hybrids more affordable.

Moreover, as hybrids deliver the best miles-per-gallon, they are very friendly on your wallet once you've purchased a hybrid vehicle.

Hybrid market has been estimated to increase to some 3 million cars year within a decade and some, such as Toyota, expect to sell 1 million a year by themselves within a shorter period of time.

The trend is clear. In time, almost all cars will be hybrids.

Toyota's director of research and development, Kazuo Okatmoto, sees that transition time from between 20 to 40 years.

However, you don't need to wait that long to get all the benefits of owning a hybrid car, as there are many models available to choose from.

Popular hybrid cars include Toyota Prius (Motor Trend magazine's car of the year for 2004), Honda Accord Hybrid, and Ford Hybrid Escape.

Keeping up to Date with Hybrid Cars Guide

This website has been developed to be a quick and easy handbook (or web-book :) ) to the world of hybrid cars, answering all your most important questions about hybrid cars, and giving background research on the upcoming trends in the industry, including:

• New hybrid cars
• Best rebates and discounts for hybrids
• Information on the market for rental hybrid cars (the easy way to trying out in-depth such a car before buying one)
• Best hybrid cars (including news on automotive awards)
• and much, much, more.

In short, the aim of the information here is to provide you with the tools needed to make smarter shopping decisions on hybrid cars. I hope you enjoy the site! See here for another site about book stores.