General Motors Hy-wire
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The Hy-wire (Hydrogen drive-by-wire) is a concept car from General Motors introduced in January 2002[1]. The car runs on hydrogen fuel cells and uses a drive-by-wire system, meaning that the car is controlled electronically. GM asked school children to name the car, and one of them suggested "hy-wire".
General Motors has stated that it is confident that it can produce a commercially viable model by 2010.
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- General Motors' website
- "The Architect" Inventions and product development of Hy-Wire
- "GM's Race To The Future" The inside story of how the world's biggest automaker came to see the hydrogen car as its salvation—and took the lead in the engineering challenge of the century.
- Howstuffworks "How GM's Hy-wire Works"
