Race For Clean Cars Revs Up
Christian Science Monitor) This article was written by Mark Clayton.
A global competition to build cleaner and more fuel-efficient cars is moving into a new and serious phase. In the past two weeks:
Honda announced a new-generation diesel engine with so few emissions that it meets even California's tough clean-air standards, while getting 30 percent better mileage than an equivalent gasoline-powered vehicle. It plans to sell it in the U.S. in 2009.
General Motors said it would lease more than 100 hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles by next fall and sell them in volume by 2011.
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A global competition to build cleaner and more fuel-efficient cars is moving into a new and serious phase. In the past two weeks:
Honda announced a new-generation diesel engine with so few emissions that it meets even California's tough clean-air standards, while getting 30 percent better mileage than an equivalent gasoline-powered vehicle. It plans to sell it in the U.S. in 2009.
General Motors said it would lease more than 100 hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles by next fall and sell them in volume by 2011.
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