Policy Documents

Alternative-Fuel Vehicles Star, But Wide Use Is Miles Away

James R. Healey, Shron Silke Carty and Chris Woodyard –
January 11, 2005

Automakers are filling the streets of Motor City with fuel-saving and low-polluting gas-electric hybrids, high-mileage diesels and even exotic hydrogen fuel vehicles, hoping to demonstrate during the high-profile North American Interantional Auto Show that the future is here and that they are its champions, its partisans, its owners.