| SHANGHAI--
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC), a leading automaker based in
Eastern China, has successfully developed a fuel cell-based vehicle recently
along with its partners including Tongji University.
It is the fourth-generation fuel
cell-based vehicle, and it comes after SAIC Motor, the university and other
partners worked out a third-generation product a year ago. The vehicle
uses a body of the Roewe, a self-developed brand of SAIC.
The vehicle has a power performance
as good as analog products by Benz, said Wang Gang, president of Tongji.
It has a maximum speed of 150 kilometers an hour. Fully-fueled, it is able
to run 300 kilometers continuously. The time-to-amplitude converters is
15 seconds for the vehicle, a stride from 19 seconds for the third generation
product.
The vehicle burns hydrogen. It can
save much energy and is friendly to the environment.

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