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Modine Provides Components to Volkswagen for New Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle

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Modine Manufacturing Company, a designer and developer of heat and mass transfer technology for fuel cell systems, is now supplying humidification and water management components to Volkswagen for their fuel cell hybrid vehicle - the Touran HyMotion. This is Volkswagen's latest endeavor into the fuel cell hybrid automobile market, and part of the car company's global effort to reduce vehicle emissions and lessen the world's dependence on oil (imagine that!). Automakers have finally figured out that rising oil prices and tougher environmental rules are increasing the public's interest in vehicles that use less fuel with reduced tail pipe emissions.

Hybrids increase fuel efficiency by capturing the energy normally lost to friction braking and storing it in a battery for later use when driving power is again required. Unlike internal combustion engine hybrids, Volkswagen's hydrogen fuel cell hybrid emits - WATER. Pure and simple.

> Source: Modine
> Estimated price: N/A
> Date released/expected: N/A

Posted on May 20, 2005 01:56 PM

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