It is a good movement that they have came up with. While manufacturing cars that are fuel efficient without removing the speed element, they have also created more jobs for the people around them. We are able to see that there are many parties who benefit from it and not only the car manufacturer that benefits through their profits and revenue.

Thanks for the "coolest car company" tag. We will continue to work to live up to that! We will be testing the hydraulic hybrid technology in the next few months and look forward to posting the results. The preliminary EPA results show that existing internal combustion engines can achieve 40 to 60 percent increased fuel efficiency with this techology added. Definitely a step (or two) in the right direction and just the tip of the iceburg for the industry.

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Tesla in 1936, in public and with media present, demonstrated a car that he put a 75hp "electric" motor into the car, ran two wires up to the front seat, went to the corner hardware store and bought some vacumn tubes. Put them together with some wires in a box the size of a shoebox in the front seat, connected the wires to two small metal rods and drove the car for a week at up to 90mph. No gas, no fuel. He said you could run your car or house on this small box of tubes for near ever, that it got its power for a combination of the earths gravitational force and the suns rays, day or night. He was ridiculed and the press wrote that he must be in league with the devil. Rockefellers, Standard Oil owned the press. He was so mad at the people, press and nation that he just never divulged his invention. Ford and Chevy in the 1960's, 70,s demonstrated in public and in Mechanics Illustrated cars that ran from 200 to 400 miles per gallon. After the demonstrations each time they were never heard from again or mentioned. People who have maybe come up with perpetual motion motors, magnetic type, and some on Tesla's principles have been killed, threatened, and prevented from commercializing their inventions. Suppressed technology. We have it but your dead if you bring it out.

Their logo and motto: "LightningHybrids: Go fast. Go Far. Go Green. No Compromise." ... Sorry, but as long as they're burning carbons, they're COMPROMISING. I'll wait for the "all electric"

For a series of videos that take an in-depth look at Lightning Hybrids, go here: http://engineeringtv.com/blogs/etv/archive/tags/Lightning+Hybrids/default.aspx

That 0 to 60 is about the same as a Subaru Forester XT and slower than a Subaru WRX! Not impressed by the speed. But the real question is, Why the obsession with speed? What's needed is energy economy. Note that all-electric doesn't eliminate carbon if the source of electricity is coal. Still worse problems if the source is nuclear. Thus the goal should be energy efficiency. The Honda civic hybrid does a good job. -T

Ok--1st two posts have good arguments, but why let those stop you? Why can't you start with a 60 MPH and add a converter to make it plug in, so you can burn no carbon's--assuming your electrical provider uses Green Sources? If that car owner never has to pull in to a gas station--then he achieves your goal. As to the zero to 60, hey you'll have folks who will never buy in without that power. We want them to not burn carbon too! If we can get them and folks like me who don't care how fast I have to go, you have both ends of the market and no arguments. Why isn't this a win all the way around? If you look at it compared to what else is out there, it's great. But we all have to agree that the research to do better has to continue and we should not be wedded to any single source(s).