http://live.pirillo.com/ -
here's a front row seat to
GM's product announcements at
IAA 2007 in Frankfurt,
Germany. If you look real
close, you can see a few
industry superstars sitting in
the audience (when I turn the
camera away from the stage to
point it at Ponzi for a
moment).

In essence, the environmental
strate
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http://live.pirillo.com/ -
here's a front row seat to
GM's product announcements at
IAA 2007 in Frankfurt,
Germany. If you look real
close, you can see a few
industry superstars sitting in
the audience (when I turn the
camera away from the stage to
point it at Ponzi for a
moment).

In essence, the environmental
strategy of General Motors
Europe is to reduce CO2
emissions in the short term
and introduce new propulsion
technologies in the long term.
The goal is to offer customers
vehicles that can operate on
many different energy sources.
'The multi-tiered approach
includes accelerating the
development of electrically
powered vehicles, stepping up
efforts to replace fossil
fuels and increasing the
efficiency of gasoline and
diesel engines,' explains
Carl-Peter Forster, GME
President. GM Europe will
invest 700 million euros in
new engines and transmissions
in the next five years alone,
with the first models already
at the IAA.

Carl-Peter Forster continues:
'Opel's surprise for this
year's IAA also symbolizes the
versatility of our extensive
environmental initiative. A
concept car which combines
electric propulsion and a
turbo diesel engine in a way
that is fundamentally
different to previous hybrid
propulsion designs.'

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