Word: pointed
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...find the development of powerful electric cars with significant range. [These will be] emotionally styled luxury cars because you want some kind of intangible premium that customers are willing to pay for. These two poles will converge as the technology advances and costs are brought down to a point where the average family car could be available at a feasible price. That's the tipping point that, as I say, could take 20 years, easily. (Read "Audi Gets in the Fast Lane...
...take on that? Hybrid technology has been around for how many years now? Yet its percentage of total vehicle sales is around 3%. It takes a very long time for these technologies to make inroads. We laud the Obama Administration's objective of wanting to get us to a point where we have lower emissions and lower fuel consumption. What we are less comfortable with is that they want to pick technology. Let the guys who actually understand these technologies get on with finding the solution...
...Audi is instead touting the benefits of diesel technology. How do you get around the negative perception of diesel cars in the U.S.? Clean-diesel technology represents an immediate technological leap - you immediately, very significantly, reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Biodiesel, too, could get you very close to the point where you can have a neutral carbon footprint. This can all be attained in a relatively shorter space of time, and at lower costs, than waiting 20 years-plus until we get our act together with electric cars. I should say, though, that hybrids are important. It is not diesel...
...believe that we have to get out the word that breast cancer is public health priority in the developing world,” said Felicia M. Knaul, an HMS Professor and Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative. “That’s a point that hasn’t come through in the literature and existing research...
...settlement freeze. Why are the Palestinians suddenly making such a fuss about a settlement freeze now? the Israelis ask, as if this signifies a hidden agenda. The Obama Administration appeared to take Netanyahu's side last weekend, pressing the Palestinians to drop the precondition for talking. But the Palestinians point out that they weren't the only ones raising the issue: the Obama Administration, too, had issued an unambiguous demand that Israel halt all construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in line with the 2002 road...