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Toyota quit pursuing fuel cell technology as a replacement for the internal combustion and hybrid vehicles because it IS dirty fuel. They are still experimenting with it and have a fleet of them on the West Coast but it won't become commonplace. They instead have geared towards hybrids as the wave of the future. They were implimented in Japan 5 years before the U.S. and introduced to California first for emissions concerns. Their benefits and reliability has been so good that they cannot produce enough of them to meet demand. Some of Toyotas assembly plants here are being re-tooled so that in the near future almost any of its 17 models can be built 'standard' or hybrid on the same line as the build order states.Other major manufacturers that have fallen behind in this technology have found it 'cheaper' to lease Toyotas technology and pay them for their research and success than to design their own. I have been involved with the Prius since its introduction to the U.S. and can say I have never seen a major malfunction with any of them and the generation 2's are even better! Go Toyo!
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