The case for hydrogen as an industry transformer
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
"The potential long term answer to the high fuel price dilemma is the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Burns plans to have an 'automotive competitive’ FCV ready by 2010, meaning a running vehicle that could be put into production on an equal footing - in terms of costs, performance and durability - with a conventional automobile. To hydrogen skeptics out there, this goal - the most aggressive of any the major automakers engaged in FCV development - seems optimistic, to put it mildly. But Burns points to dramatic progress at GM on improving the FCV hardware; for instance, the fuel stack power density (a measure of output versus size) has improved by a factor of 14 in the last seven years. Today, GM’s fuel cell team has not reached its objective of $50 per kilowatt output for the hydrogen fueled powertrain, a figure that would make it cost competitive with a conventional internal combustion engine. But Burns is more confident than ever before that this competitive target can be met over the next five years." Source: detnews.com
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