General Motors has been a bit behind on green car technology. However, they are looking to change that. They are planning to unveil a European concept car based on its new E-Flex platform at September’s Frankfurt Motor Show.

This new concept features radical styling, a diesel engine which acts as a generator for the electric motor. It is hoped that the as-of-yet unnamed concept will be able carry at least one of the £4000, gyroscope-controlled devices for use in town once you’ve parked.

GM has other green plans in store too. Car Online writes

GM is also working on active aerodynamics cheap enough to be used on future Corsas which will close the grille, lower the car and even fold the wing mirrors in at speed to reduce drag. Radically redesigned underbodies will have the same effect.

GM will also use the Frankfurt show to launch a series of other green models. A European version of its US Equinox fuel cell car will make its debut. Badged GM HydroGen4, 10 will be deployed on the streets of Berlin, which already has hydrogen filling stations.

And GM will officially launch its ecoFlex models, starting with the 119g/km Corsa 1.3CDTi. The ecoFlex badge will mark the least polluting cars in the Opel/Vauxhall line-up, using smaller capacity diesel engines, as well as compressed natural gas in some other European markets. The Cadillac BLS will get a biofuel option from autumn this year, with most Vauxhalls to follow by 2010, likely to be led by a flex-fuel Vectra as early as next year.

GM Europe president Carl-Peter Forster said, “You have to do the right thing, and be seen to do the right thing.”

“The aim is to keep the burden off the smaller cars. The bigger ones will get more technology, but are likely to get more expensive too. We don’t make a lot of money at the moment and to absorb all the cost ourselves would nearly put us
out of business.”

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via car online