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02/07/2008 21:52. Hydrogen-powered cars will not be commercially available on a large
scale before 2020, a senior official from Japanese auto maker Mazda
said at an international oil conference. // iAfrica.com

02/07/2008 01:25. Hydrogen-powered cars will not be commercially available on a large scale before 2020, a senior official from Japanese auto maker Mazda said Monday in Spain at an international oil conference.

"The earliest that customers will use these environmentally-friendly vehicles in a normal way will be 2020," the general manager of the firm's technical research centre, Tsutomu Matsuoka, said at the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid, one of the oil industry's biggest events.

"We have many things to do before then," he said.

Infrastructure making it possible for drivers of hydrogen-powered cars to refuel must be put in place before the vehicles are widely used, Matsuoka said.

A way to mass produce the cars at an affordable price must also be found before they take off as an alternative to... // Manila Times

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First News Article: AFP, 01/07/2008 03:15