• Newsweek , Thursday, October 2, 2008 10:30 AM

Between Karl Greenberg's hawkeye coverage in Marketing Daily Section One (tip o' the hat) and the items from elsewhere that we pick up here, it seems that hardly a day goes by without news about a new green car in the making. Christian Caryl and Akoko Kashiwago do a good job of putting all the forthcoming models and technologies in perspective in an overview that, from the starting line, cedes the lead to Japanese automakers. They say that even before global warming became a global issue, the oil-poor country was obsessed energy efficiency.

The Honda FCX Clarity, the hydrogen-fuel-cell car that's in high demand but limited production, is cited as a futuristic vehicle that isn't, like most, just a "concept" at the moment. Its only emission is a trickle of H2O.

After reading a few weeks ago about how much General Motors is betting its future on electric cars starting with the Chevrolet Volt that will go on sale in two years, I was surprised to learned that Mitsubishi's i MiEV boosts a range of 100 miles per charge as compared to 25 for the Volt. It will go on sale in Japan at the end of 2009 for about $28,000.

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