Have you ever stopped to wonder why the carbon-free green trend seems to have bypassed the larger vehicles on the road? Sure, they’re operating on much stricter fuel standards now, but try renting or buying a hybrid or all-electric hummer or a big custom limo.

technology is available

The problem is not that the technology is not available. Of course. Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, recently converted a Hummer to green technology. The true hero of this new revolution is Neil Young, who recently converted his classic Lincoln to full electric.

Year 8,000 pounds Lincoln electric

Your car weighs four tons or 8,000 pounds, but it’s a high-performance vehicle that will top 100 mph. Plus, it’ll accelerate from zero to sixty in five and a half seconds and go sixty miles before needing a recharge.

A very expensive conversion

The problem is that it is not profitable for a limousine service to adopt this level of technology in its vehicles at this time. For example, the engine conversion alone on these types of larger heavy-duty vehicles costs the owner over $100,000 and that’s what’s under the front hood.

A limo with no space in the trunk

Another problem at the moment is that batteries and hydrogen or propane tanks completely fill the space now occupied by the trunk of a limousine. This would be a big problem for people who had luggage.

Get ready for a green limousine service

So for now, with the cost considerations and the other issues involved, like the vanishing trunk, a totally green limousine service will just have to wait. However; all it would take is for the cost of gasoline to skyrocket to $8 a gallon and eventually it will and you’ll be seeing green limo services emerge.