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>> Let's see -- which [Inaudible] Asian auto maker is
still missing a hybrid. Hmm. Hyundai. But they say
they're going to fix that A-S-A-P. And here's an
engineering buck of what the Sonata hybrid is going to
look like when it arrives in 2010. Coupled to their
well-known theta 2.4 inline Ford gas engine. And of
course it's a hybrid, so that couples to an electric
more. So far so good. But here's where it gets
different. This battery. Lithium polymer technology,
which they say is ahead of even Lithium Ion, which is
what most car makers are still looking forward to. The
benefits they say because this isn't a little canister
of fluid like a Lithium ion, it's more robust, safer,
less likely to run away or have a meltdown fire, weighs
less, and holds more energy in a given space, they
claim, and also is more resistant to the wear down you
get from de- and re-charging a battery over and over.
The bigger mission here is for Hyundai to zip
themselves, they think, to the top of the green world by
being the first car maker selling in the U.S. with a 35
mile per gallon fleet average by 2015 -- five years
sooner than the federal folks say companies have to.
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