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Show Pollution-free cars held goal Chairman Albert L. Nicker-son Nicker-son of Mobile Oil Corp., told stockholders at the company's annual meeting recently in Los Angeles that the gasoline-powered, piston-engine automobile will be made essentially pollution-free before electric cars can be made practical. The most nearly practical car that could be built today, Mr. Nickerson said, would probably be smaller than present-day compacts, would be able to travel not more than 50 miles without recharging, and would require several hours to recharge. It would have a top speed of 40 miles an hour, and probably would cost at least $1,000 more than present-day present-day small cars. In contrast to this, he continued, con-tinued, research is proceeding to make the piston engine, "with all of its convenience, high performance characteristics, characteris-tics, and relatively low cost, virtually pollution-free." "Our specific objective," he asserted, "is to achieve markedly mark-edly lower pollution levels than the standards California has proposed for 1970, which are the toughest anywhere." |