Honda and Toyota are poised to begin selling hybrids within the next two years. Soon to Go On Sale in the United States. The annual Guide ranks cars and trucks according to environmental friendliness. Using this pathbreaking consumer guide, buyers can compare cars, vans, pickups, and sport utility vehicles by their environmental impacts, including air pollution, global warming, and fuel efficiency. The Guide for the Model Year 1999 includes listings for over 1500 makes and models, covering every car, station wagon, van, pickup truck, and sport utility on the market this year.
Transportation accounts for about a third of all the energy consumed in the United States.
In addition to using public transportation more, they ask that people purchase the most efficient model you can find, for real demand in the market is what influences corporate decisions. Today's automobile is a sophisticated, mature technology. Despite many incremental improvements during a century of evolution, however, its design remains fundamentally the same. Integrating these advances into automobiles is already offering exciting new possibilities. But to exploit them fully requires new ways of thinking about automotive design.