Today in his keynote speech at the Washington Auto Show, DaimlerChrysler’s CEO Dieter Zetsche encouraged U.S. lawmakers to support a diversity of approaches to reducing dependence on foreign oil. Zetsche cautioned against policies that favor hybrids over other fuel-saving technologies, pointing out the new generation of BLUETEC clean diesels.

“What we need to avoid in this country is a legislative bias that favors a single technology, be it hybrid or anything else,” Zetsche said. “State and federal governments shouldn’t be in the business to giving certain vehicle drive technologies an edge in the market.”

Zetsche’s speech encouraged legislators to rethink fuel economy policies, with new policies that encourages more technologies and offer a great choice.

While the majority of DaimlerChrysler focus is on clean diesel, it “is not pursuing diesel to the exclusion of other alternate fuel technologies.” DaimlerChrysler has invested more than $1 billion in fuel cell technologies, and, working with GM and BMW, has developed a state-of-the-art, two-mode, full hybrid powertrain.

## Source: DaimlerChrysler ##

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