If you've seen one auto show, you've seen them all. Right? Well, on the show circuit this year, we're starting to see a pattern here...
This dispatch today from the Geneva Auto Show coming out of Reuters describes the scene and sentiment similar to what we've been hearing on the floors of the car shows in Detroit, Washington, Paris, Frankfurt, and now, last week's automotive spectacle: Hybrid and electric cars are the stars of the motor shows, but the expensive and limited technologies could take more than a decade to really hit the roads. And even then, the market showing will be minimal. Internal combustion engines is still the most realistic path to emissions rules compliance in the near future.
As Chang-Ran Kim and Christiaan Hetzner report in the article, among the various debuts of the new electric vehicles, "most of the automakers gathered at the Geneva Auto Show said the most practical road to meeting Europe's 130g/km C02 emissions target by 2015 was to improve conventional gasoline engines, downsize their cars, or offer more diesel engines, which are 20-30 percent more fuel-efficient than their petrol cousins."
An interesting read if you've ever wondered, "Why Diesel?"
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