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That impact may be felt very soon. The first major field test of fuel-cell vehicles will take place this year in California. And by 2004, DaimlerChrysler and Ford--as well as GM, Toyota and other companies--expect to be selling fuel-cell cars directly to consumers...
Cars like the NECAR4, housed in a lab near Stuttgart, could help make that happen. This experimental vehicle, being jointly developed by Ford, DaimlerChrysler and Canada's Ballard Power Systems, gets its energy from hydrogen--the most abundant fuel in the entire universe. Hydrogen, unlike fossil fuels, contains no carbon atoms and thus generates zero carbon dioxide. However, it could produce some pollution, since burning hydrogen taints the atmosphere by rearranging air molecules to form nitrogen oxides and ozone...
...NECAR4 doesn't burn hydrogen. Instead, it uses an onboard fuel cell, developed by Ballard, to let hydrogen combine slowly with oxygen at moderate temperatures. What comes out is plain H2O and electricity...
...Fuel cells were invented in the 1800s and adopted by NASA for generating clean power in space in the 1960s. Only in the past decade have they been made small enough to fit inside a car. The NECAR4, based on a Mercedes-Benz A-class compact sedan, accommodates five people plus luggage, reaches speeds of 90 m.p.h. (145 km/h) and goes about 280 miles (450 km) between fill-ups. "It's comparable," says Ferdinand Panik, head of DaimlerChrysler's Fuel Cell Project, "to the impact the microchip had on computer technology...
...comical to think of smuggling a high-flow toilet, but your article failed to address the critically important issue of water conservation. Did TIME make light of fuel-efficiency standards when customers were unhappy with their Yugos? Why repeal water-efficiency standards? My low-flush toilet works just fine. I suggest that these unhappy customers simply need to buy a toilet that works. There are plenty of them right here in the U.S. MARY ANN DICKINSON Sacramento, Calif...