Ford To Make A Zero-polluter
Sydney Morning Herald
Monday May 11, 1998
The zero pollution car, emitting nothing more harmful than water vapour from its exhaust pipe, is less than three years away.
The Ford Motor Company will begin limited production of the world's first fuel cell cars in 2001, Ford's global president, Mr Jacques Nasser, announced last night in France.
Fuel cell technology is a form of liquid electricity. On-board fuel cells extract hydrogen from conventional liquid fuels such as gasoline and methanol before converting the hydrogen gas to electricity.
Ford would produce "several hundred" fuel cell cars in 2001 as a prelude to "meaningful production" in 2003/4. The technology is expensive but is viewed by most analysts as the most promising answer to car pollution.
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