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Yesterday's Road to Tomorrow.(Column)
Byline: Kevin A. Wilson
Eighteen years ago, on the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day, AutoWeek published its first issue devoted entirely to "green'' concerns related to the automobile. In calling the 1990s a "green decade,'' we got it wrong on that April 1990 cover. Few would describe the SUV-happy, horsepower-race '90s as green in an automotive sense. Many enthusiasts consider it a golden age of the car but not a green one.
The text inside that 1990 issue holds up pretty well. We missed on the timeline, certainly. Some stories could run today with only minor edits. We tested a flex-fuel Ford Taurus, for instance, because President Bush (the elder) was calling for a push to expand our use of ethanol to gain energy independence. And I've been writing about hydrogen cars for 20 years now. They have been 20 years away the whole time.
AW forecast that we'd see diesel-electric-hybrid family sedans getting 70 mpg by 2010; regulators and automakers told us so. When another administration came along, we got the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, and auto-makers did indeed build prototype 72-mpg diesel-hybrid sedans. It was such a ...
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