{"id":1704,"date":"2007-06-11T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T14:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/11\/petrol-and-diesel-are-dead-says-gm\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T14:39:27","slug":"petrol-and-diesel-are-dead-says-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/06\/11\/petrol-and-diesel-are-dead-says-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Petrol and diesel are dead,&#8221; says GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/News\/NewsArticle.aspx?AR=225989\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070612_gm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/070612_gm.jpg\" title=\"070612_gm.jpg\" alt=\"070612_gm.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>General Motors is determined to \u201cremove the car from the environment and energy debate\u201d in the next 10 years by doing away with the internal combustion engine altogether. The world\u2019s second largest car company now views hydrogen fuel cell power as the \u201cthe end game,\u201d according to its director of advanced technology vehicle concepts Dr Christopher Borroni-Bird. Using internal combustion engines is no longer an option, and that includes diesels and hybrids. \u201cHybrids are not a solution,\u201d he said. \u201cThey just delay the day of reckoning. The debate about hybrids being cleaner than diesel is irrelevant &#8211; the diesel is a dead end because it uses fossil fuels.\u201d Dr Borroni-Bird said that hydrogen-powered and electric cars would develop alongside each other, and that GM would have a \u201ccost-effective\u201d fuel cell car by 2010. It will trial 100 fuel cell Equinox SUVs across the world in a market test for the car. Image source: autocar.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>Global <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=6\"><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=5\"><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><\/a><span class=\"LinkBluePgtMedium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=3\">General Motors<\/a><\/span> <span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/News\/NewsArticle.aspx?AR=225989\" target=\"_blank\">Autocar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors is determined to \u201cremove the car from the environment and energy debate\u201d in the next 10 years by doing away with the internal combustion engine altogether. The world\u2019s second largest car company now views hydrogen fuel cell power as the \u201cthe end game,\u201d according to its director of advanced technology vehicle concepts Dr&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gm","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}