Hybrid Engines
I’m very enthusiastic about environmental issues (although I am unabashidly pro-capitalist), sustainable development, and alternative energy. I don’t drive a car but if I did, I would love to have a hybrid like the Ford Escape or Toyota Prius, or one of the next-gen models that are surely appearing soon.
This Wired article has an interesting quote:
“We’re at the edge of making the internal combustion engine similar to regular film for a camera,” says Ernest Bastien, VP of Toyota’s vehicle operations group.
In comparing the internal combustion engine to 35mm film, do they mean to say that the traditional automobile is going extinct much the way digital cameras have taken over film ones? Or did I misinterpret what he said?