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It’s a prototype hybrid car that gets 150MPG, and goes 40 miles on electricity alone, drawing its power from a combination of lithium-ion batteries and ultracapacitors. The ultracapacitors provide a burst of energy to the engine, when needed. They are then recharged by the lithium-ion batteries. This avoids the problem of emptying the batteries too fast, which can cause them to heat up, and possibly catch on fire.

Read what GM Chairman, Rick Wagoner, thinks about the role of ethanol in the bridging the imposing canyon separating today’s petroleum needs with tomorrow’s hydrogen-powered electric hybrid promises.

Good news to those that can afford it. Porsche promises the Panemare to be offered in a hybrid flavor when it finally bows in 2009, with a 30-percent boost in fuel economy.