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"General Motors’ Energy Diversity Strategy"

General Motors is pursuing a portfolio approach to solving the world's transportation challenges. Those challenges center around two primary issues. The first issue is that petroleum supplies are expected to diminish as the world people and vehicle populations increase. The second issue is that climate change will continue to occur and have adverse effects as carbon based fuels are consumed. General Motors’ future vehicle portfolio will include three broad categories of advanced propulsion technologies - electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and biofuel capable vehicles. Electric vehicles have the greatest well-to-wheels efficiency, but are limited to small vehicles with short driving range and long refueling times. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have the same performance capability as conventional vehicles, but require a new fueling infrastructure as well as significant cost reduction. Biofuel vehicles have the greatest flexibility, but fuel sources and cost require additional technology development. It is expected that within ten years all three new propulsion categories will be in mass production and use.

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