Gasoline Engines Will Remain Dominant!
Just after posting our last blog below concerning the “The Dirty Truth About Plug-In Hybrids” I read an Automotive News report by Lindsay Chappell from the 2010 Management Briefing Seminars entitled “Gasoline Engines Will Remain Dominant, Execs Say”. It helped to reinforce my argument at the end of our blog on plug-in hybrids that it will be awhile before these gain any significant market share. The Automotive News article states that conventional gasoline engines will dominant the market for the next 20 years. Though electric vehicles, hybrids and other alternative powertrain technologies are getting a lot of exposure and buzz lately it is just cold hard reality that gasoline engines will dominant for the next few decades. Thus it will be critical for the automobile companies to improve the performance and mileage of gasoline engines. I agree with Barb Samardzich, Ford Motor Co.’s vice president of global powertrain engineering, that designing and improving gasoline engines “will be a great career going forward.” It might not be as glamorous as the new powertrain technologies but it is just as critical for us to improve these conventional gasoline engines so we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil sources.
Do you agree?
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