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The award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young is bound and determined to tear down and rebuild the motor in Motor City, according to Autoblog and a piece that the singer wrote for Huffington Post.
Sharing popular concerns about fuel prices and efficiency, Young has been hard at work in recent months, trying to develop practical electric car conversions. His masthead vehicle -- a revamped '59 Lincoln dubbed Linc Volt -- has gotten some media attention of late.
Riding that wave of publicity, Young has penned a piece for the Huffington Post, challenging Detroit auto manufacturers to "make a good deal for the future of America" and to "stop building autos that contribute to global warming now." Referencing his Linc Volt model and other competitors for the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, Young vehemently argues that the requisite technology is realistic, if not already available.
While the folks at Autoblog politely consider the realization of Young's dream to be "entirely impossible," we here at Switched are firm believers in our workers and thinkers here in the U.S. of A. It was, after all, this country that gave birth to the first automobile, the first airplane and the first microwave oven. Surely, the U.S.A. can band together to create and produce a vehicle that truly responds to the needs of this millenium.
(We'll forget for the moment that Neil Young is Canadian). [From: Huffington Post via Autoblog]
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Subscribe to commentsMikeNov 18th 2008 3:31PM
I wouldn't drive a stink'n electric car!
estoneNov 30th 2008 12:56PM
NEIL I AM DAMN PROUD O' YOU BOY ! all Americans should be thinking along these lines... change? you want CHANGE? then DO SOMETHING FOR G-D SAKES AMERICA !!! quit yakin' on the TV and DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE -- WE DON'T NEED A STINKIN' CITIZEN ARMY WALKIN' THE STREETS LOOKIN' FOR TROUBLE we NEED to put our heads together and get outta this mess people !! our COUNTRY is about to get taken over !!! in case you missed it !!! WAKE UP AMERICA before it's too late !!
estoneNov 18th 2008 8:42PM
NEIL I AM DAMN PROUD O' YOU BOY ! all Americans should be thinking along these lines... change? you want CHANGE? then DO SOMETHING FOR G-D SAKES AMERICA !!! quit yakin' on the TV and DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE -- WE DON'T NEED A STINKIN' CITIZEN ARMY WALKIN' THE STREETS LOOKIN' FOR TROUBLE we NEED to put our heads together and get outta this mess people !! our COUNTRY is about to get taken over !!! in case you missed it !!! WAKE UP AMERICA before it's too late !!
briceNov 18th 2008 10:28PM
I would.
Joan D.Nov 19th 2008 5:06AM
Neil Young should read up on the hydrogen fuel cell cars being developed by Chevrolet, Toyota, and Honda, because they do not even require plugging into an outlet to recharge. They simply require water to refuel and they are nonpolluting. Once they get them into mass production and install the refueling pumps at our gas stations it should never cost more than two dollars a gallon to refuel, which sounds pretty good to me.
KevinNov 19th 2008 8:10AM
Irony is bittersweet. Historically speaking, Americans cannot truly claim the title 'first' in either airplanes or automobiles. History is full of information and people who came before us in the development. The turnaround of the truly 'first' American invention "the microwave" can also be seen as a major contributor to the health issues and obesity problems in the US and now the world, as they are also now constructed mainly overseas. Additionally, history shows that the CEO's of GM systematically purchased and dismantled inner-city street rail system across the US in order to push the gas-powered car. They are getting their comuppance, or as with the development of the first automobile they are credited with, they will ride on the shoulders of all the other companies and engineers who have already solved the energy problem for cars and trucks and finally start producing them. Unfortunately, laden with expensive union wages and benefits and therefore too expensive to buy. Of course, Ford could sell to Americans the 4 or 5 models which are hugely fuel efficient and best sellers that they've only been making and selling in europe.