Requiem for An Auto Giant.

Bob Lutz, vice chairman of General Motors was said to have stated that global warming is ‘a crock of shit.’ Now that the company that helped to pollute the environment with the millions of vehicles his company has produced and sold through the years is breathing its last, ‘the crock of shit’ as the V.C flippantly termed it will be reduced considerably and the air is all the more purer as a result.
The era of gas guzzling, pollution-spewing internal combustion engine is slowly but surely coming to a close. While the Western manufacturers are still obsessed with the idea of ICE and keep on producing the evil-product, some far sighted entrepreneurs in Asian countries like China and India have slowly started to deviate from the well-trodden path. India’s electric vehicle Reva and China’s rather advanced BYD are forerunners of this coming revolution.
Talking about India, the Tatas are going to fill the highways with their cheap little trinket called the Nano. They will soon be visible on the highways around the world, belching carbonic gases like nobody’s business. Such ventures are bound to be short lived, for the days of petrol and diesel driven vehicles are numbered.
The writing on the wall is there for all to see. Auto makers will have to wake up from their rigid mindsets from petrol to ‘green’ cars very soon or they will have to give up the ghost like the ubiquitous GM.