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GM kills the engine
Created: 10/30/2007
Video description: GM shows off its "Hy-Wire," a fully functioning prototype vehicle with no steering wheel, no pedals, and (most importantly) no combustion engine. It runs instead on hydrogen fuel cells, which means the only thing coming out of the tail pipe is water vapor.

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