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To: Junkyardawg who wrote (1780)	3/17/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: BillQ	Respond to of 1983

I answered my own question about 2 min. after I posted that.Sorry.

To: Junkyardawg who wrote (1780)	3/18/1999 2:58:00 AM
From: Junkyardawg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1983

The future is upon us. These new technologies will need a new battery that is light weight with longer lasting power and cheep to produce. I invite you to read the following article that came out today. Thursday March 18 12:16 AM ET DaimlerChrysler Unveils Fuel Cell Car Reuters Photo By Tim Dobbyn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DaimlerChrysler AG (NYSE:DAJ - news) unveiled an environmentally friendly compact car Wednesday that turns hydrogen gas into electricity and leaves just a stream of water vapor for exhaust. But don't expect to be able to buy anything like it until 2004 when the company hopes it has brought down production costs and encouraged the distribution of suitable fuels. The NECAR 4, driven onto the stage of a Washington press conference by DaimlerChrysler's two top executives, solves many of the weight and space problems of previous prototypes. Based on the Mercedes A-Class small car, the five-seater NECAR 4 can travel 280 miles before refueling. Its NECAR 3 predecessor unveiled in 1997 could carry only two people 250 miles because a mass of plumbing took over the back seat. DaimlerChrysler co-chairman Juergen Schrempp told reporters the race to demonstrate the technical viability of fuel cell vehicles was over. ''Now we begin the race to make them affordable,'' he said. Environmental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner attended the unveiling and said it was an exciting technology that could reduce pollution and dependence on imported oil. ''We look forward to the day when this car is available to any who want to do their part for a cleaner environment,'' Browner said. The combination of hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity was discovered in 1839 but its first significant use came as a power source in the U.S. space program. Interest in fuel cells to power vehicles has grown as emission standards have tightened and battery-powered vehicles struggle to get the range consumers demand. DaimlerChrysler is developing part of its fuel cell technology through a partnership with Ballard Power Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:BLDPF - news), a Canadian firm that is also involved with U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F - news) Other automakers are also developing fuel cell-powered vehicles, including the world's No. 1 automaker General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - news), and Japan's No. 1 automaker Toyota Motor Corp. (Nasdaq:TOYOY - news) Prior to merging with Chrysler last November, Daimler-Benz embarked on its fuel cell program in 1994 with NECAR 1, a large delivery van that had the entire cargo area taken up with tanks and pipes -- a laboratory on wheels the company admits. That was followed by NECAR 2 in 1996, a passenger van that hid much of the equipment behind a rooftop fairing. The technology has shrunk to the point where in NECAR 4 the fuel cell system is under the floor. ''Fuel cells give you the range of conventional gasoline engines and emission benefits of electrical vehicles,'' said project leader Ferdinand Panik. But as exciting as the concept is, DaimlerChrysler knows it has obstacles to overcome. ''The high cost of alternate fuels relative to gasoline, the lack of a fueling infrastructure out there, are two of the significant hurdles,'' said co-chairman Robert Eaton. NECAR 4 as shown Wednesday uses liquid hydrogen stored in an insulated tank but DaimlerChrysler's own numbers show that would be the most expensive fuel. More likely fuel cell cars would use methanol or a super-clean version of gasoline as the source of hydrogen using an onboard reformer. NECAR 3 used methanol but that route does produce carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas implicated in global warming. Panik told reporters that converting 30 percent of all gasoline stations in California, New York and Massachusetts for alternative fuels would cost $1.4 billion for hydrogen, $400 million for methanol and $200 million for new formula gasoline. Schrempp himself cautioned that the company was continuing to explore even cleaner versions of gasoline and diesel engines. ''The breakthroughs that we have made in the last five to 10 years nobody would have believed.'' Asked how a fuel cell-powered vehicle would perform on Germany's famous high-speed autobahns, Schrempp replied: ''The car will behave as a typical Mercedes behaves -- it will be safe and will be fast.''