I agree that a system similiar to Honda's IMA (Integrated Motor Assist) system will probably be standard issue in the next generations of cars but that's actually not the hybrid's that this forum is devoted to. The hybrid forum is actually for people who want to build their own hybrids by using the motor from another car and installing it in theirs (typically a B-series Integra engine in a Civic chassis).

Since the subject was brought up anyway, IMA systems are good now but unfortuately require a considerable amount of weight and mass for their batteries. I think pretty soon there will be a major breakthrough in battery/electrical storage field and things like that are going to take off. I've actually read a little about lithium polymer battery technology where eletrical energy can be stored in a polymer that can be reformed into just about any shape. The article was refering specifically to replacing Lithium ion batteries currently in laptops and was looking at how a lithium polymer battery could quite litterly but the laptops case itself. Should be interesting in the next few years how all of this plays out and more interestingly to me, how it develops into the performance/tuning market. Imagine that someday we'll no only have to tune a stand alone fuel management system, but also develop the control systems for the IMA system, the variable valve and timing systems and probably thinks like ABS and traction control as well.