Automakers generally would cheer the recent availability of regular unleaded gasoline for less than $3 a gallon in parts of the U.S., unless they are trying to sell electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids as a hedge against stiffening fuel-economy standards.“With gas prices going down, that’s a problem. People are looking at value,” Jim Buczkowski, Ford’s director-electrical and electronics systems/research and innovation, says at a panel session at the recent SAE 2014 Convergence electronics conference here.
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