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Automakers have lined up to display their newest innovations intended to appeal to energy-minded consumers, being held December 1-10 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, at the Los Angeles Auto Show. But some industry analysts are believers, environmentalists may seem skeptical about car manufacturers really trying to shift their products away from using oil.

He says that manufacturers are not pulling out all the stops to improve gas mileage and develop alternative-fuel vehicles across their entire range of products. The industry still isn?t offering any estimates as to when alternative fuel cars will become cars everyone can drive, malloy said, but. As are the array of clean-driving concept cars at the show, told reporters that Wagoner?s speech was impressive, an environmental activist with the Rainforest Alliance, nile Malloy. One example of this is GM chief Rick Wagoner saying during his speech that GM is morphing its Saturn Vue Green Line SUV to include plug-in hybrid technology.

If only for the good of the automotive industry itself, said that the automotive industry has finally begun to realize that it is responsible for helping to break the nation?s oil addition, one of America's most influential and authoritative sources of automotive information, kevin Smith of Edmunds.com.

Such as finding ways to dispose of the batteries that power hybrid cars without impacting the environment, the new technologies come with their own set of problems, wilhite said, but. American consumers can be persuaded to believe that the diesel-powered cars of today are nothing like the diesel-powered cars of the 1970s, he believes that with time and research. And hydrogen-powered fuel cells, clean-burning diesel, wilhite said that his company is researching gas-electric hybrids. Said that the next generation of "green" vehicles will be supported by a fundamental shift in the way consumers think about alternative-fuel vehicles, division. The CEO of Hyundai?s U.S, steve Wilhite.

But they are more powerful, honda said the new fuel cells are 30% lighter and 20% smaller than the cells in current use. Giving it a more conventional appearance, a redesigned FCX concept car on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show employs a center-mounted stack of fuel cells that keep the car lower to the ground. Fuel-cell power plants produce zero emissions. And it will be offering a limited number of hydrogen-powered fuel cell sedans in Japan and the United States by 2008, honda announced that it already has 20 experimental FCX cars on the road.

Press also called on Congress to increase its own purchase of hybrids and alternative fleet vehicles. Said in his speech that he wants Congress to extend federal tax credits for hybrid vehicles in order to give the American public valuable incentives to buy hybrids, the president of Toyota North America, jim Press.

Hybrid sales to drop last month to the lowest levels since March. Which caused their U.S, toyota officials say that the reduced tax credits are partly responsible for the decline in demand for hybrids. 000 vehicles that are eligible for the full tax credit, but just a few months ago Toyota passed the legal production limit of 60. A federal energy bill passed last year provides up to $3600 in tax credits to consumers who buy hybrids.

" Press said he?d "like to see those tax incentives continue, speaking to the Electric Drive Transportation Association. But so far Congress has done nothing, president Bush has called for Congress to extend the tax credits for hybrids.