Detroit News: Geneva Motor Show just more green washing?

Posted Mar 3rd 2008 at 8:10PM by Lascelles Linton

Filed under: Green Culture, Geneva Motor Show

The Detroit News, the home town paper of the American automakers, has noticed that the Geneva Motor Show has a lot of green concepts but very few green cars coming to market soon. Large SUVs are still flooding the market, the Detroit News writes, as politicians and public only see green technology demonstrations. Are we being fooled by the pretty green dangling keys?

To defend the automakers a little, the concepts shown are not so many years out like the diesel hybrid cited in the Detroit News article. While diesel hybrids will be expensive, they are not impossible to make today. Also, if a car sparks real excitement at an auto show, it's often fast-tracked into production. So, yes Detroit News, there is a little green washing but also a lot of good ideas that are coming to the market very soon.

[Source: Detroit News]

Tags: Geneva-Motor-Show, green-washing, SUV

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-04-2008 @ 8:28AM

Tim said...

"Large SUVs are still flooding the market.."

I feel sorry for the poor fools when they try and resell them with $4.oo/gal gas prices.

3-04-2008 @ 8:42AM

mike said...

Maybe it's time for GM to dust off those CADCAM files and build the EV-2, with lithium-ion batteries. Too bad they never actually built a REAL assembly line for the EV1, cause they could have just restarted it. Some fresh body work and the money rolls in.

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