Looking back over 2004"s activities in battery electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles, and ahead to those to come, industry newsletter "Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Progress" predicts a 2005 full of hybrids over most of the globe, particularly in the U.S.

Hybrid passenger vehicle offerings should more than triple this year -- not just in the number of vehicle models offered, but in the number available to purchase, as well. And biofuels, already taking off with record numbers of production facilities opening and on the drawing board in 2004, will pick up speed in the U.S. in 2005, thanks to the recently passed Corporate Tax Bill.

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