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 (转贴) General Motors Unveils Fuel-Cell Truck for Army - 当中国把能源战略定位在抢石油的时候,别人早就准备下一步了 |
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作者：归去来兮 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
HONEOYE FALLS, N.Y. -- General Motors Corp. rolled out the world's first drivable fuel-cell truck Friday and handed the keys over to an exacting patron: the U.S. Army.
The olive-green pickup took a demonstration spin around GM's fuel-cell development center in rural upstate New York, carrying former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Brig. Gen. Roger Nadeau, commander of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
While its electric engine emits a high-pitched whine, a key feature in future fuel-cell models developed in collaboration with the U.S. military will be stealth -- along with better fuel consumption and zero tailpipe emissions.
"Noise on the battlefield is not a good thing when you don't want to be found," Nadeau said.
"The baseline performance of this [will] be as good as our best performing [internal combustion] engine and will get better from there," he said.
Instead of gasoline, the fuel cells run on energy produced when hydrogen and oxygen are mixed, and the only byproduct is water vapor.
Since 2003, President Bush has pushed a five-year, $1.7 billion research program to develop hydrogen as America's next energy source. Americans will drive cars operated by hydrogen-powered fuel cells in less than two decades, he predicted.
Most major auto makers are developing hydrogen fuel cells but the cost of the vehicles and a lack of fueling stations make them unmarketable for now. GM, which is aiming to put commercial fuel-cell vehicles on the road by 2010, does the bulk of its research in this village 20 miles south of Rochester, N.Y., where it employs about 300 people.
Its partnership with the Army, which operates the largest fleet of vehicles in the world, "will help us drive down costs, create potential for future joint development of fuel cells and promote the development of a hydrogen infrastructure," said a GM executive, Elizabeth Lowery.
The modified Chevrolet Silverado crew-cab truck is powered by two hydrogen fuel cell stacks and has a driving range of 125 miles. It can carry up to 1,600 pounds, accelerate from zero to 60 mph in 19 seconds and has a top speed of 93 mph.
The truck will be leased to the Defense Department for noncombat uses at Fort Belvoir, Va., and Camp Pendleton, Calif., and tested in various climates and terrain around the country until July 2006.
作者：归去来兮 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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 (转贴) General Motors Unveils Fuel-Cell Truck for Army - 当中国把能源战略定位在抢石油的时候,别人早就准备下一步了 -- 归去来兮 - (2365 Byte) 2005-4-04 周一, 05:05 (1349 reads)
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