Automakers' Focus: Eco-Friendly Suvs

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DETROIT -- Long the domain of concepts and smaller cars, gasoline- electric hybrids soon will power trucks and sport utility vehicles as automakers work to expand the more environmentally friendly technology.

The major auto manufacturers are ramping up the introduction of hybrids this year. At the North American International Auto Show, several touted those and other green innovations, such as efforts to tweak traditional engines to improve fuel economy and attempts to persuade Americans to give diesels another chance.

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Automakers' Focus: Eco-Friendly Suvs

But environmentalists complain hybrids have been slower to reach production than once predicted. And they fear the industrywide push toward developing vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells, ...

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