Fisker Automotive will receive more than $500 million in federal loans to develop a plug-in hybrid sports car and a new plug-in hybrid vehicle to be built in the United States.
“Fisker has raised tens of millions of dollars from top venture capital firms such as Palo Alto Investors and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, of which former Vice President Al Gore is a partner.”
This is not about the environment. It is about funneling money to politicians such as Al Gore. There is nothing wrong with using the internal combustion engine.
These articles tell you nothing about how the hybrids work in cold weather. The answer is that they don’t work by the battery in cold weather and require the engine to run full time. The environmentalists want the hybrids to be a step in between full electric cars, but they cannot and do not tell you that they will perform miserably in cold weather.