This will be short. There's a company called AFS Trinity, makers of the XH-150 Hybrid, a hybrid vehicle that they claim gets 150 MPG, and uses ultracapacitors instead of batteries.
They pulled out of the LA Auto Show because they say the show's management attempted to muzzle their claimof 150 MPG. Read all about it below.
This is relevant only because, right now, as in the case of Wall Street, the Detroit Brain-dead Three are demanding $25 Billion in taxpayer money to allow them to retool to do research on the car of the future, whatever that might turn out to be.
AFS Trinity Power Corporation today announced it pulled its 150 MPG plug-in hybrid SUV prototypes out of the LA Auto Show but will independently exhibit and demonstrate the super fuel- efficient vehicles on their own elsewhere in downtown LA during the show.
The company's decision followed actions by the LA Auto Show to muzzle AFS Trinity from highlighting the 150 miles per gallon fuel economy of its XH150 prototype vehicles. "The suppression by the automakers of information about technologies such as this raises serious questions about the judgment, vision, intentions and capabilities of the leadership of these companies," said Edward W. Furia, Chairman and CEO of AFS Trinity. "Such conduct by the automakers, who are currently seeking tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, ostensibly to develop fuel efficient vehicle technologies, is evidence they are reluctant to embrace solutions they didn't invent."
...(Note: the LA Auto Show
is "owned" by the Greater Los Angeles New Car Dealers Association,
which, in turn, is closely associated with the major auto makers in
Detroit)...
The bottom line here is that Furia believes that the LA Auto show, which is associated with the Detroit car makers, put unacceptable constraints on AFS Trinity's show location and on their ability to advertise their 150 MPG figure.
Read about it and wonder about bailouts.
This might be a case of a company selling hot air and looking for capital; I haven't had time to research it. Anybody know about AFS Trinity?
One sour note to their story: AFS Trinity DID display at the North American Auto Show in Detroit last January, and that may imply a bit of a lie to Furia's conspiracy theory about the LA Auto Show. (Or not... They may have seen it there for the first time, and decided to dog it around afterwards.)
I'm sorry, but I won't be able to ride the diary down the list - back to work!