Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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They probably need to keep blasting the public with ads and in your face advertisements. Thee hybrids won't be around much longer and they're trying to milk their now hipster prius image. I mean why drive something that looks like a shoe and gets the same milage as a 80s honda, or even recent hondas. Or most diesel cars. The VW Polo gets 60-70 on a turbo diesel which still have some fun factor to driving. When that goes on sale here I'll be in line. They have a waiting list in Europe as well.
Hydrogen will be the next fuel source.
How about some reality checks on comparing cars with each other....
1) The amount of federal crash equipment alone (airbags etc), along with a bunch of other mandated equipment (catalytic converters etc.) has drastically increased the weight and decreased the efficiency of modern cars. Did your 80's car have AC, a massive stereo, ABS, HID lights, and a bunch of other energy-sucking accessories? Did it do 0-60 in under 10 seconds? It probably had about half the horsepower rating of a similar model today. Comparing a 00's car to an '80s car is just not fair - put them in a crash test or a race, and then decide which one you'd rather drive. If hybrids allow all this extra "baggage" for the same fuel efficiency, isn't that a good thing?
2) Diesel works in Europe. It works because they have much lower air quality standards, particularly in the area of particulates. Even ridden a bike in London - good luck coughing up pieces of lung every few days. There are some solutions (urea injection, particulate filters) which can make modern diesels meet US standards, but most of them suck power and require additional maintenance.
I agree with your comment on the "hipster" status of the prius, but until the volt and other plug-ins arrive, hybrids are a decent compromise for the next decade or so.
Regarding hydrogen, that's a joke. Storage and distribution are still major issues. There is currently no good (high throughput) way to make vast quantities of hydrogen other than by refining fossil fuels. Fuel cells have a major problem with the membranes being poisoned after a few thousand miles. Currently the developmental cars that GM et al. are offering, cost in excess of $1m each. H2 is just not ready for the big-time for at least another decade. Hybrids are here now. They're not an end point, but an important stepping stone.
If only the U.S. government would put a little more of that stimulus package towards mass transit (trains, subways, etc.), instead of getting more people to drive a Prius, it would be much cheaper and more "green" in the end. Also these solar flowers looks like they do not provide any shade.
@virgil
There are tons of diesel powered vehicles on the road in North America, I guarantee you've seen at least a few. I mean, they're pretty hard to miss, being big 18-wheeler trucks. Not to mention the clean burning diesel VWs and other cars that are starting to get more popular.