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I personally think that GM and a few other car companies are doing a great job with developing new ways of powering vehicles... i'd never take that away, i just think that Hybrids have been wrongly promoted in the UK at least has been the ultimate "ECO-CAR" and frankly it's no more enviro-friendly (when you take in to account the building etc) than a normal car........ yes they do get good fuel economy and should be promoted as such...
Maybe it's just a little bitterness on my part, in the fact that the UK government is finding more and more ways to tax the motorist, and the "eco" bug was a very convenient way for those gits to hit us up for more cash!!
E85 well don't know alot about it, but it does seem a fairly logical choice, depending whether older cars can be retrofitted to run on it.
Fuel cells... fantastic idea an i quite liked the car that they had on TOP GEAR (can't remember what it was called).. loved the idea that you could just lift the body off and have an MPV one day and a hatchback the next.... Hydrogen worries me a little bit though , the safety of the cell in an accident... imagine it ruptures (nice little sparks) and bang... definitely a write off!!
But again good on GM for spending the time and (loads of) money to research and develop these... one things for sure the future will be interesting!!
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