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Hydrogen Powered Vehicle Receives Award
Date: Jan 24th, 2008 1:51:37 am - Subscribe
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Most vehicles today still use internal combustion engines. But the increasing threat of climate change has automakers scrambling to develop powertrains which are eco-friendly. These powertrains though are still in the development process. But, they will soon be available in the auto market.

One of these powertrains developed by automakers includes the one on the Chevy Equinox which recently received the Green Car Vision Award from the Green Car Journal. This is according to The Auto Channel.

The Chevy Equinox is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell which has been developed by General Motors. The said vehicle beat four other vehicles for the award which are the BMW Hydrogen 7, Honda FCX Clarity, Phoenix Electric SUT, and the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid all of which are equipped with components more valuable than a heater core.

Ron Cogan, editor and publisher of the Green Car Journal had this to say: "The Equinox Fuel Cell is visionary on many levels. Zero-emission vehicles destined for our highways in the years ahead will take many forms, from small car platforms to large. Powering a popular crossover model with a future fuel such as hydrogen, and doing so seamlessly with an efficient powerplant that creates no CO2 greenhouse gases, is exemplary and Chevrolet should be commended for this."

The development of the Chevy Equinox shows that General Motors is also serious with the development of powertrains for the future. The power of the vehicle comes from the fuel cell where hydrogen fuel is stored. The energy produced from the fusion of hydrogen fuel and the oxygen in the atmosphere powers the Equinox. This means that the vehicle does not burn petroleum fuel nor emit greenhouse gases.


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anonymous - January 09th, 2009
The (GRD) great republican depression is about to change American driving attitudes and driving habits! Obama went to the Chinese for a loan, and they hesitated! Yankee Doodle, China has you by the proverbials, and they like red meat! We are not the number one AAA borrower we once were! Reality is about to shove new transportation realities right up you tight little brown spot, and with swift deliverance and great pain! Once you get used to public buses and trains you won't mind the walk from the station to your destination as much, and you will lose weight, not from the extra walk so much as from the new "all veggie" diet GRD poverty will impose on you! The days of arrogant entitlement are over! Having a Euro-diesel for weekend pleasure cruises will be for the upper-middle class only, the rest of us will live in Shanty towns on the outskirts of cities full of foreclosed McMansions of a former time! The Oil barons pump less and charge more, and the less we use, the longer they last before the last drop is sold, so it is in their better interest to sell less at a higher price, diesel or otherwise, and they do take up the slack! The party is over boys, pick up your beer cans and go home, bye the way, you'll be charged for the damages in the morning! Good night America, it's over!
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