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Article: Cleaner cars - As pure as driven snow?(Review)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 15, 2000
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POWERING THE FUTURE--THE BALLARD FUEL CELL AND THE RACE TO CHANGE THE WORLD. By Tom Koppel. John Wiley; 288 pages; $29.95 and Pounds16.99
FORWARD DRIVE--THE RACE TO BUILD "CLEAN" CARS FOR THE FUTURE. By Jim Motavalli. Sierra Club Books; 288 pages; $25
VANCOUVER is about a thousand miles from Silicon Valley. But as a hotbed of new technology it is a million miles away, not even on the same map. Yet in a garage in the unfashionable north bay area of the city was born a machine that could change the world--the Ballard PEM fuel cell. It promises to be to the car of the 21st century what the internal combustion engine was to the car of the 20th.
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