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GM, Dow Use Fuel Cells in Freeport, Texas Factory.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004
By Jeff Bennett, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 10--Note from General Motors Corp. to fuel cell naysayers: Take a look at what we have in Freeport, Texas.
The world's largest auto company is expected today to pull the wraps off 400 automotive fuel cells it has wired together to generate electricity at Dow Chemical Co.'s 30-square-mile Freeport complex.
This real-life approach ups the ante in the race by the automotive industry to unlock the technology secrets needed to produce affordable fuel cell cars by 2010.
Fuel cells produce electricity through a chemical process involving hydrogen. As a result, water is exhausted, rather than harmful gases.
Unlike its competitors, which spend at least...
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