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Acabion – A Hybrid Car RevolutionPardon? The Acabion, launched at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show, is a Swiss engineered car with remarkable qualities. You've heard about other green cars. But this one takes the cake! It's a truly fuel efficient car. It is a 4-cylinder, two-seater hybrid car, with 6 gears, and which drives on fuel/electrical power. And it's as scarce as hen's teeth! Well, you say. Yeah... that's a bit unusual, but tell me more. How about this:
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It is a truly international composition. What do I mean? Listen to this This amazing car is the brainchild of Swiss engineers Lenka Mikova and Dr Peter Maskus.
Its cost? Sit down first. AUS$2.53 Million. Oh yeah, and about the hen's teeth... Only 26 of these cars will be produced between 2007-2011. From there on the creators plan for falling prices. If you order one now you'll have one in three year's time. That's the production plan. That's it. I guess if you can find a spare $2.5 million you'll be able to purchase something else to drive around in till then.
Hybrid cars?
But... But... Even at that price there will be buyers. As always, magical technology is seductive. It has a valuable role to play in ameliorating climate change. The causes of global warming however reside in over-technological thinking. And in over-emphasis on material progress and individual prosperity.
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