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Many Roads Lead To Cleaner Cars, GM And Toyota Say
By Mr Ethanol | September 12, 2007
AFP:
The world’s biggest automakers, GM and Toyota, have taken different routes so far to developing cleaner vehicles but agree there is no one way to achieving lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
They also agree that making the technology affordable will be a major challenge.
“We are investigating biofuels further,” Toyota executive Mike Hawes told AFP late Tuesday at the Frankfurt Motor Show, one of the world’s largest.
“We are also looking at, in the longer term, fuel cells,” which use hydrogen to produce electricity.
Toyota already has 10 years of experience with its Prius hybrid car that combines an electric and a petrol engine and leads the industry.
General Motors, meanwhile, has developed vehicles able to use petrol mixed with ethanol, so-called E-85 capable cars and trucks, but each is now working hard on several technologies and presented their options at the Frankfurt fair. Read full article.
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