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To: Hawkeye who wrote (1839)3/13/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: riposte  Read Replies (1) of 5827
 
URL to the Fortune Magazine Article...

I still have to pick up a copy off the news stand.

Steve


The Automakers' Big-Time Bet on Fuel Cells


They're putting more than $1 billion into a revolutionary power system. Daimler-Benz wants to be out first, and GM is "totally serious."

Stuart F. Brown

Plus:
Tomorrow's Car Engine in Acrobat PDF format

Dr. Ferdinand Panik, who runs Daimler-Benz's fuel-cell program, foresees cleaner, fuel-saving buses and cars. Bright-eyed, his silver hair a little wild at the fringes, Dr. Ferdinand Panik, 56, clearly relishes piloting a very special Mercedes vehicle briskly past the apple orchards on the outskirts of Nabern, Germany. The 40-foot ultramodern Nebus (for "new electric bus") is virtually silent under way. In the engine bay normally occupied by a growling diesel are several "stacks" of fuel cells that, without combustion, make electricity to drive the motors that turn the wheels. From a hilltop nearby, a castle looks down on new labs and workshops that automaker Daimler-Benz is equipping for a top-priority fuel-cell development program that could make the noisy, polluting piston engines that power the world's cars, trucks, and buses as obsolete as the steam locomotive.


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