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November 30th 2006 01:40
GM reveals unveils ambitious clean-energy plan
General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner outlined a wide-raning plan to help the automaker cut back on oil consumption during a speech at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday.
"GM is significantly expanding and accelerating our commitment to the development of electrically driven vehicles, beyond what we have already committed to with our fuel cell and our hybrid programs," Wagoner said, according to a copy of his prepared remarks published in The Detroit News.
"We face an increasingly uncertain energy future on a global basis," Wagoner said. "It is highly unlikely that oil alone is going to supply all of the world's rapidly growing automotive energy requirements."
GM, like other automakers, has stepped up its use of green-friendly vehicles. Wagoners said GM will debut an advanged two-mode hybrid system -- developed by DaimlerChrysler AG and BMW -- on full-size trucks and SUVs within a year.
It has already developed a vehicle that can be configured as a plug in hybrid, the 2008 Saturn Vue Green Line two-mode hybrid.
"For the global auto industry, this means that we must -- as a business necessity -- develop alternative sources of energy in order to meet the world's growing demand for our products," Wagoner said. "The key as we see it at GM is energy diversity."
Even GM's biggest gas guzzler of them all -- the Hummer -- is getting a fuel efficiency makeover. The brand will offer biofuel powertrains within the next three years that will allow it to run on gasoline or E85.
General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner outlined a wide-raning plan to help the automaker cut back on oil consumption during a speech at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday.
"GM is significantly expanding and accelerating our commitment to the development of electrically driven vehicles, beyond what we have already committed to with our fuel cell and our hybrid programs," Wagoner said, according to a copy of his prepared remarks published in The Detroit News.
"We face an increasingly uncertain energy future on a global basis," Wagoner said. "It is highly unlikely that oil alone is going to supply all of the world's rapidly growing automotive energy requirements."
GM, like other automakers, has stepped up its use of green-friendly vehicles. Wagoners said GM will debut an advanged two-mode hybrid system -- developed by DaimlerChrysler AG and BMW -- on full-size trucks and SUVs within a year.
It has already developed a vehicle that can be configured as a plug in hybrid, the 2008 Saturn Vue Green Line two-mode hybrid.
"For the global auto industry, this means that we must -- as a business necessity -- develop alternative sources of energy in order to meet the world's growing demand for our products," Wagoner said. "The key as we see it at GM is energy diversity."
Even GM's biggest gas guzzler of them all -- the Hummer -- is getting a fuel efficiency makeover. The brand will offer biofuel powertrains within the next three years that will allow it to run on gasoline or E85.
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