D.C. Drivers Help Electric Vehicles Become a Reality.

Local drivers participate in "Project Driveway" - an innovative market test that is influencing Chevrolet's efforts to eliminate petroleum use and CO2 emissions
WASHINGTON, D.C. - At the Shell station on Benning Road Northeast, General Motors President and Chief Operating Officer, Fritz Henderson, today presented the keys to the area's first motorists to be selected to test drive away in advanced technology hydrogen fuel cell powered Chevrolet Equinox electric vehicles. Identified at the 2008 Washington Auto Show, Tom Albert of Alexandria, Va., and Nick Williams of Washington D.C., will join drivers from Southern California and the New York metropolitan area in GM's "Project Driveway" -- the world's largest fleet of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and first comprehensive market test of this innovative technology.

This Chevrolet brand of General Motors' vehicles is been used to lead the way in removing the automobile from the environmental and energy equation. It does not use any petroleum and does not release any greenhouse. The only emission is clean water vapor. For two months, the vehicles will be put through the rigors of everyday commute in the real world.The feedback will aid GM's Chevrolet division in refining the technology and marketing plans.