Check out this link:

http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2004/08/27/6900038_SolarHydrogen/index.html

You can also google "solar hydrogen".

General motors had an opportunity to be American heroes.
The most effective way to attack terrorism is by taking away their funding. Electric cars can be charged with any source of power availiable, solar, wind, nuclear, geo thermal, and in the future possibly fusion. We can also charge electric cars from coal and oil burning power plants equipped with the latest in clean burning technology. American innovation is being killed by greedy corporations combined with the "couch potato apathy". From a strictly scientific point of view electric cars are more efficient than gasoline cars and they are cleaner. How they are charged, is up to our future generations. I think it is only fair that we give our children a decent choice, and a decent chance.
Filling our gas tanks with dead soldiers every day
is anything but decent.
GM Anti Innovation = AntiAmerican.

General Motors (MeToo Motors) has always been a copy cat and never leads in technology except when they produced the EV1 and their other electrics. They sold out to the oil companies by literally selling the NIMH battery patent to Mobil Oil.

Now, they scam the public with the E85 propaganda.
Fact is that it takes more energy to produce ethanol than is recovered from combusting it in an ICE.
GM knows this fact.

You gotta ask why? Is it to support the US farmer? Check to see who owns the largest intrest in the ethanol plants.
...afterall cheap ethanol can be bought from Brasil

Produced hydrogen for use in fuel cells will never occur due to the infrastructure , transport, storage, production problems.

However, the future will be an electric vehicle with an onboard fuel cell running on a liquid hydrocarbon such as ethanol, methanol, or refined fossil fuel. see methanol fuel cell technolgy .. Ballard Power, Toshiba

GM presented the Volt concept vehicle but claimed the battery technology is not availble. Tesla motors has long range electric vehicles.

GM is presently busy trying to capture the auto market in China. They see a market sales potenial of 200million vehicles per year. GM has exported the North American jobs to secure the market.
Here are the issues,,, 90 percent of the gasoline in the world is consumed in North America ....if China comes on line, fuel capacity is finite...we must go without
China is notorius for stealing technology and producing in country copies ...refer to the dvd piracy issue
..in all when the auto industry is established in China
there is no need to buy forgien (GM) products

Well I actually sat in this car at the Detroit auto show and it's really quite nice. I would totally consider buying one. Of all the hybrid sedans, this one allows one to lower the back seats and have a decent size pass-through to the trunk. The car obviously is not as high-tech under the hood as Toyota's system, but then it only costs a few HUNDRED dollars over a standard base version of the car (when you consider the Greenline package adds Stability Control and other features not available on the base model, in addition to the hybrid system [a Pontiac G6 for comparison]). GM has taken a 180 degree approach here -- develop a simple, affordable system that gives about 80% of the benefit of a hybrid powertrain for only a few hundred more. Honda/Toyota/Ford have a more advanced system available, but it costs several thousand dollars more than the standard powerplant. In environmental terms, this is an imperfect, cost-conscious world and I think it would be far better to have fleets of these more affordable BAS-type hybrids on the roads rather than a fewer number of the advanced full-hybrid models. GM should offer this system across the board. Future vehicles should no longer idle -- the fuel saved would be incredible.

Meanwhile, it is May 2007, and the Aura Green Line is still not available at dealerships anywhere.