GM Rolls Out World’s First Fuel-Cell Truck

General Motors Corp. rolled out the world’s first drivable fuel cell truck Friday and handed over the keys to an exacting patron: the Army.

The olive-green pickup took a demonstration spin around GM’s fuel-cell development center in rural upstate New York, carrying Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Brig. Gen. Roger Nadeau, commander of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.

The modified Chevrolet Silverado crew-cab truck will be leased to the Defense Department for noncombat uses at Fort Belvoir, Va., and Camp Pendleton, Calif., and tested in various climates and terrain around the country until July 2006.
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