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GM, Toyota Dismiss Fuel Cells for Mass Use


The Wall Street Journal reported this week that executives from General Motors Corp. and Toyota Motor Corp., at the Geneva Auto Show Tuesday, “expressed doubts about the viability of hydrogen fuel cells for mass-market production in the near term and suggested their companies are now betting that electric cars will prove to be a better way to reduce fuel consumption and cut tailpipe emissions on a large scale.”

Both GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz and Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe expressed strong opinions that fuel cells are too expensive and will be for some time and that advances in lithium-ion batteries make them much more practical as a mass-market product.  . . . read the WSJ article

in a somewhat related post, the MIT Technology Review has a little more information on GM’s BAS+ mild hybrid system that further explains how the Hitachi Li-ion batteries fit in with that system that increase the mileage by 20% and indicates that GM will use about 100,000 of these batteries annually by 2010.

The new battery pack, a lithium-ion pack made by Hitachi, combined with an improved alternator-generator, can deliver three times more power than the company’s older system, which used nickel metal hydride batteries. GM claims that this system will be a perfect complement to another fuel-saving strategy: downsizing the engine and adding a turbocharger for bursts of power. The turbocharger doesn’t kick in right away, and it doesn’t work well at low engine speeds. But the battery and motor kick in right away, compensating for the so-called turbo lag.

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Top Gear: Killing a Toyota Part 1

http://www.topgear.com The Top Gear team attempt to destroy a Toyota pick up truck.

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toyota News



Daihatsu to Cut Production of Engines for Toyota SUVs (Update2)
Bloomberg - 3 hours ago
18 (Bloomberg) -- Daihatsu Motor Co., 51 percent owned by Toyota Motor Corp., will cut production of engines for the carmaker on slumping US demand for
Fitch Mulls Toyota Downgrade Wall Street Journal
Fitch says may cut Toyota rating on industry slump Reuters
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Hürriyet
Toyota, BMW, Hyundai Workers' Senators Oppose Rescue (Update2)
Bloomberg - 21 hours ago
Kentucky has Ford, GM and Toyota Motor Corp. assembly plants, and a Toyota engine factory. The US-based automakers are seeking a cash infusion as
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AsiaOne
Automakers say if they go, millions of jobs will vanish
USA Today - 8 hours ago
But even Toyota said this weekend that it fears the impact on the parts suppliers it uses if the USA's domestic auto industry collapses.
Bankruptcy may be good for the Detroit Three MiamiHerald.com
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ABC News
Clout Has Plunged for Automakers and Union, Too
New York Times, United States - 43 minutes ago
Some senators criticized the industry’s failure to sell cars like the Toyota Prius, which was built only as a hybrid — a vehicle that GM’s vice chairman,
Should Washington Bail Out Detroit? National Journal
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Reuters South Africa
Toyota plans zero-interest loans in Europe -media
Reuters - Nov 16, 2008
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