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Comments: Toyota, GM: Hydrogen fuels cells are not viable in the near-term
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Infrastructure is not in place... losers... someone has to begin building the infrastructure. Thanks God for HONDA!
I wonder just how fast the infrastucture would go up if the Govt. would be willing to give the first 250,000 people that bought a Hydrogen car free Hydrogen for 3 years? It would cost about four million dollars. Not the 2.8 Billion that congress is going to pass for the development of Ethanole. Prime the pump and the Gas stations would all jump in and, we have instant infrastructure!
Hydrogen fuel is a good concept. It is nature friendly also.
If the federal government makes the appropriate effort, there is no reason hydrogen fuel cells and every iota of infrastructure cannot be a reality. And quickly too, if the politicians truly were people of honor, which they are not. We can use electric vehicles in the near future, and we will be. The Chevy Volt will be a plug-in hybrid with a small gasoline engine as a back-up. That will be here in 2009 or 2010. We need nuclear to generate electricity. Fossil fuels will be gone in the future. The sooner, the better. Oil is killing us economically and environmentally. It is an antiquated source of energy. We no longer need to be dependent on it. It is now a matter of politics, corruption and greed.
Totally agree with Hy2pumper. Read a short review on a failing of the GM HyWire as being extremly slow acceleration rate (order of 15-20 sec to 60 mph). Why can't you marry the two technologies? Fuel cell for distance and lithium cells for acceleration?
Still think the idea of the government buying the first year's fuel would get a lot of people on board, especially if it looked like the HyWire (love it - where can I get one!!)
Funny that GM wants to suggest electric vehicles when they had perfectly working models driving around that they took back and crushed... after they said they wouldn't....
ref: movie "Who Killed The Electric Car?", avail Blockbuster, NetFlix, etc.
Tokyo Gas, the Ministry of Economy, “Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration Project (JHFC Project),” based on trials have demonstrated that hydrogen station JHFC (Tokyo), hydrogen fueling pressure on the traditional two-fold And 70 MPa (700 Pressure) equipment to supply expanding this as a demonstration study began.
http://www.hydrogen-motors.com/hydrogen/