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| GM to produce its first fuel-cell vehicle |
General Motors is to build its first fuel-cell vehicle, which will convert gasoline into hydrogen, in the spring of 2002.
Byron McCormick, co-director of GM's Global Alternative Propulsion Centre, says the special Chevrolet S-10 small pick-up will be produced solely for demonstration purposes and not sold to the general public.
The American car giant said engineers have redesigned the catalyst, which is also referred to as a 'reformer' in the trade, to prevent one of its basic elements from disintegrating during the chemical reaction that produces hydrogen from gasoline.
GM, like the rest of the car industry, is betting that hydrogen - used in electric fuel cells - will be the fuel of the future, from around 2010.
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