Fuel Cell Vehicles
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While electric-car advocates may avoid the issue, some buyers simply won't choose a plug-in car that can't travel unlimited distances. That's where the Chevy Volt-style range extender comes in, though the Volt adds unlimited range by burning gasoline in a conventional engine to generate electric power. Now a new type of fuel cell offers the potential for a different kind of range extender, one that removes the enormous practical problem facing hydrogen fuel cells: the lack of a distribution infrastructure to fuel vehicles that require pure hydrogen to feed their fuel cells. Smaller, cooler...
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Toyota’s Fuel Cell Car for 2015 Gets A Whole Lot More Expensive
For the past few years, Toyota executives have been keen to point out that the Japanese automaker is working on bringing a production hydrogen fuel cell car to market by 2015. But according to recent reports, Toyota has changed the estimated price of the as-yet un-named fuel cell car from $50,000...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
Fuel-Cell Vehicles Are Likely Coming (A Few): Who's Winning?
We're on record with the analysis that electric-car production will far, far outweigh that of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles built over the next decade, and perhaps longer. Still several carmakers are pressing ahead with plans to build hydrogen-powered vehicles, and now Pike Research has ranked them...
John Voelcker -
Mass-Produced Mercedes Fuel Cell Vehicle Coming In 2014
While most major automakers are working on new battery-powered electric cars and plug-in hybrids, some are still investigating the benefits of more advanced fuel cell vehicles that use a hydrogen fuel cell stack to convert hydrogen into usable electric power. One of the leaders in this field is...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran