GM announces introduction of Hydrogen Fuel cell car

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(clett @ Sep 28 2006, 07:36 AM) [snapback]324992[/snapback]</div>

That's an exit strategy. Those that expect delivery of a fuel-cell product will feel short-changed.

Toyota's electric augmentation is far more straight-forward, each hybrid generation takes them a solid step forward. They will already have built up a strong reputation for large-scale consumer acceptance for each advancement. That's a business model you can bet the farm on.

Suggesting GM is promising to deliver more than it actually plans makes sense, but it is high risk and delivers little in the meantime. That's not good for a company struggling to survive.

 

For a CBS video of hydrogen vs batteries, please click on right panel of this page:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/12/...C-SearchStories

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jonnycat26 @ Sep 23 2006, 10:35 AM) [snapback]323940[/snapback]</div>

What about FC replacement costs. This is only hearsay on my part, but I have heard that lifetime of fuel cells isn't guaranteed to be so great.

Dave M.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(john1701a @ Sep 23 2006, 08:44 AM) [snapback]323841[/snapback]</div>

But what if you didn't use electricity? What if you used algae and the Sun?

Algae: Power Plant of the Future?

And then you have places like Iceland, who have abundant natural sources of energy (Geothermal in Iceland's case) and no way to send it anywhere else. Iceland is well on it's way to fulfilling it's goal of becoming the "Kuwait of the North". They plan use their extremely abundant geothermal energy to generate electricity for the production of hydrogen. They can then put the hydrogen on a ship and send it all over the world. It wouldn't be very pratical to transmit electricity from Iceland to the US, but you can certainly ship hydrogen from there to here.

 

i still think its all crap. 100 vehicles means that the car cant currently be mass produced.

toss a $10,000 Li-Ion pack for free in my Prius, make it go just 30 miles on all electric and i wouldnt care if the gm started selling their thing for $30,000 today. what they are releasing would probably cost way over $100,000 anyway.

i wouldnt buy it simply because of gm's reputation of having goals that are simply too counter to my own interests. their quality record, albeit not nearly as bad as it once was, is a completely different issue.