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Sierra Club has praised Daimler-Chrysler's new clean-burning
fuel-cell vehicle, which will be available for purchase by the
public in 5 years. The company has announced that by 2004 it
will sell cars powered by a methanol fuel-cell that emit half
as much pollution as autos now on the road.
 "By showing
that you can make a car that pollutes only half as much as the
cleanest gasoline-powered cars on the road, Daimler-Chrysler
has set a new standard for other car companies to meet,"
said Daniel Becker, Director of the Sierra Club's Global Warming
and Energy Program.
The Daimler-Chrysler
vehicle will emit half the amount of global-warming pollution
as the cleanest cars on the road today, and it will emit almost
no smog-producing pollutants.
"The
shining irony in Daimler-Chrysler's announcement is that it comes
in the same month as Ford's roll-out of its giant 12-mile-per-gallon
Excursion," Becker said. "Ford earned heaps of scorn
for their Excursion gas-guzzler, but Daimler-Chrysler deserves
a round of applause for their commitment to sell cleaner cars.
"Sierra
Club calls them as we see them," Becker added. "When
Ford introduced the new, massively polluting Excursion, we renamed
it 'The Ford Valdez - Have You Driven a Tanker Lately?' However,
with the Daimler-Chrysler fuel-cell auto, we can't wait to see
them on the road and are looking forward to a healthy competition
to see who will make the cleanest car." 
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