The Car of the Future

<DIV> CBS-The Car of the Future [WORDS] ♧ the Sequel ♧ plentiful : a. 많은, 풍부한 ♧ hydrogen : n. 수소 ♧ take the place of A : A를 대신하다 ♧ internal combustion : n. 내연, 내연기관 ♧ Larry Burns ♧ petroleum : n. 석유 ♧ fleet : n. 함대, 동일 회사 소유의 전 차량 ♧ fuss : n. 호들갑, 야단법석 ♧ finite : a. 유한한, 한정된  ↔ infinite ♧ abundant : a. 풍족한, 많은, 풍부한 ♧ cutting-edge : a. 최첨단의 ♧ prototype : n. 원형(原型), 기본형, 시작품 ♧ top it off = above all ♧ extract : v. 뽑다, 뽑아내다, 추출하다 ♧ fossil fuel : n. 화석연료 ♧ to the outage of A : A의 분노를 사게도 ♧ leaps and bounds : ad. 껑충껑충 뛰듯, 빠르게, 급속도로 ♧ hybrid : n. 혼성물 - 여기서는 전기와 휘발유의 혼용 ♧ squeeze : v. 짜내다, 억지로 내게 하다 ♧ lay down : v. 버리다, 그만두다 This might look like mom's minivan, but General Motors calls The Sequel the car of the future. It runs on clean and plentiful hydrogen.   "Does this going to take the place of the internal combustion car?" GM put it on the road this week and we were among the first to take a drive. Larry Burns heads GM's hydrogen project.  "When automobile were first invented, the DNA was petroleum. The DNA of the future automobile will be hydrogen instead of petroleum." GM and Ford in a slump and laying off thousands are in a race to that future. Major car makers are spending billions on hydrogen. The city of LA has 4 Honda hydrogen cars in its fleet. "Yes, I really love the car. I love it. I can't think anything negative about it." Neither can President Bush who has pledged 1.2 billion for hydrogen research. "The idea of having a hydrogen powered automobile is not a, you know, foolish dream. It is a reality that is going to come to be." What's the fuss? While oil is a finite resource, hydrogen is infinite. It's in water. It's everywhere. The most abundant element in the universe. And it burns absolutely cleanly. Promising to take us back to the future, like when Ned and Bobby didn't worry about gas prices and pollution.   This car is cool, clean and cutting-edge. But wait a minute! A lot has to happen before you'll see many of these cars on the highways. Why? Money. Hydrogen technology is expensive. Each prototype costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Add billions more for new hydrogen gas stations. And to top it off, most hydrogen is extracted from fossil fuels. "You can only make hydrogen one way and that's expensively." LA Times auto writer Dan Nills says car makers are spinning their wheels chasing hydrogen dreams when cheaper, superior technology already exists - electric batteries. To the outrage of fans, GM pulled the plug on its electric car, the EV One, in 2003. In part, because the batteries were inadequate. Since then,   "Battery technology has progressed by leaps and bounds." Example - the new Tesla Electric from Silicon Valley, not Detroit, gets 250 miles per charge. Plug-in hybrids use batteries and gas to squeeze 140 miles out of each gallon.   "I think hydrogen is deader than disco. I think that..um.. all it needs to do now is lay down." GM stands by its hydrogen car. "The hydrogen economy is coming." The question is 'is there a real future for the car of the future?'   Bill Redeker, CBS News, Los Angeles. </DIV>