GM Canada provides Vancouver Olympics with fleet of Equinox Fuel Cell vehicles

GM Canada is helping the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games get greener. The zero emission Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell demonstration fleet will operate in Vancouver until the end of the Olympic Games.

The fleet will transport a wide array of people, from Olympic representatives to everyday Vancouver drivers, to experience the benefits of hydrogen fuel cells and to see just how far GM's fuel cell research has advanced.

"With the only emissions being wisps of water vapour, these vehicles are a perfect match for VANOC's sustainability goals and they nicely complement the broad range of fuel efficient technologies featured in the vehicle fleet we have supplied for the 2010 Games." said Matt Crossley, GM Canada's director of engineering. "We are genuinely excited to allow the people of British Columbia experience this viable green technology first-hand."

The Chevrolet Fuel Cell Equinox is Canadian engineered and manufactured and became part of the world's largest consumer fuel cell demonstration fleet. Launched in November of 2007 in three U.S. cities, the fleet is comprised of 115 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell vehicles.

More than 5,000 consumer drives have occurred since the launch, racking up over 1.7 million kilometres of gasoline and tailpipe pollution-free driving, saving more than 189,000 litres of gasoline.

[Source: PR-inside.com]

Comments

[CarZ]

Incredible. GM is dropping the ball. This vehicle should be promoted and out in the forefront of the auto industry. Yet they are doing little to get the word out like they should. They did the same thing with their electric vehicle and now that vehicle is extinct.