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Aug 28, 2007
Linde doing hydrogen fueling demonstrations at Frankfurt Show

European commercial gas supplier Linde will conduct hydrogen fueling demonstrations at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. The company will have their traiLH2TM mobile hydrogen fueling station situated outside the show hall. On September 11, they will do two demonstrations, one using compressed hydrogen gas for a Mercedes Benz F-Cell and another with liquid hydrogen for a BMW Hydrogen 7. On the 12th, they will do another compressed gas filling demo with the Me

Sam Abuelsamid
Aug 28, 2007
VIDEO: Maxiumum Bob Lutz answers questions about GM's reliability

The General's chief product guru, Bob Lutz, responded to questions regarding GM's reliability in the company's FastLane Blog's most recent video Q&A chapter. According to Lutz, who cites comparisons to company "H" and company "T" as being perpetual reliability yardsticks, GM has aimed at making every component throughout the automaker's brands "bulletproof," including the engines, transmissions and every mechanical part imaginable.

Damon Lavrinc
Aug 28, 2007
Fiat Siena Tetrafuel can run on four fuel types

A "flex-fuel vehicle" in the U.S. and Europe means you can put pure gasoline (sometimes with up to 10 percent ethanol in it) or E85 into the tank. Down in Brazil, Fiat has a hit with the Siena Tetrafuel, a sedan that can burn four types of fuel. The 1.4 liter engine in the Siena Tetrafuel can handle moisturized alcohol, Brazilian gasoline (made up of 25 percent alcohol), pure gasoline and natural gas, according to

Sebastian Blanco
Aug 28, 2007
GM Two-Mode hybrid transmission plant goes landfill free

The factory that will be turning out all the Two-Mode hybrid transmissions for General Motors, Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz and BMW starting this fall will be doing it without sending anything to the dump. Everything that comes into GM's Baltimore transmission plant for the production process will leave either in the form of product or else it will be recycled or re-used.

Sam Abuelsamid
Aug 28, 2007
Japan's Ministry of the Environment says pack the cities even tighter

Japanese cities are crowded. This fact is so well known that The Onion can easily poke fun at it. Earlier this year, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment issued a report suggesting that cities in Japan become even more centralized so that "per capita CO2 emissions from automobiles and the passenger transport sector" that have recently increased due to decentralization are reduced, according to Jap

Sebastian Blanco
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