30 — Friday, August 13, 1999 — North Shore News

Milestone motor

INTERNAL combustion engine cars like this one desiqned by Karl Benz in 1886
prove how far technology has come now that the heirs te Benz’s compeny,
DeimierChrysier sre experimenting with prototype hydregen fuel ceil vehicles.

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peratures a concern of govern-
ments and private enterprise,
tjany scientists are worried
about the sustainability of life,
the impact on resources and
the effects of carbon manax-
ide. A radical leap in technole-
gy incorporating fucl cells for
rural community generators,
home appliances, not to men-
tion automobiles is needed for
any major reduction in global
pollution.

According to Masrett
Green, media relations officer
for the Greater Vancouver
Regional District (GVRD),
some scientists believe fuel cell
technology will eventually
eliminate carbon dioxide emis-
sions from the wansporiation
sector completely.

Over 686 million internal
combustion engines are in use
worldwide, part of the $1.5

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trillion automobile industry.
Carbon diuxides (CO 3} are
the main contributing factor
to greenhouse gas build-up
and the average car generates
five tonnes of CO) cach year.
Only when the car companies
can make 2 profit using an
alternative power source, will
they invest the time and
money into offering a cleaner
product. The fuel cell provides
that opportunity.

Such is the interest thar
rescarch among top multina-
tional corporations, has come
to the point where major auto-
Motive companies plan to have
fuel cell powered vehicles for
sale to the public by 2004.
The NRC estimates that the
world market for fuel cell
engines, wi in prototype
buses used by TeransLink,
sedans by Nissan or generators
by BC Hydro, will approach
$109 billion 20 years from
now.

Nissan Morer Co. unveiled
in May a Cansdian-made fuel
cell vehicle that it plans to
market as soon as 2063.
Unlike many fucl cell proto-
type vehicles made by other
automobiie companics,
Nissan’s incorporates 2 regen-

crative charging system and.

electric traction metor, allow-
ing the braking system to gen-
erate addith power, which
recharges lithium-ion batter-

ies.

Nissan, which has been
building clectric cars since
1949, currently markets them
in Japan and has electric mini-
vans in a testing phase in
California.

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