GM Displays Fuel Cell Car in Shanghai
GM has produced a hydrogen fuel cell-powered car called the Sequel.
GM also knows that China has an appetite for advanced technology in its auto sector.
So…the GM CEO took the Shanghai Mayor for a ride in GM’s fuel-cell car.
The Sequel gets about 480km (300mi) to a tank.
The car is not ready for mass production but it has whet the appetite of the Chinese. Perhaps if China were to put its huge resource of manpower to developing the vehicle…hmm..
It is estimated that hydrogen fuel cars will be ready for the mass market by 2020, about the time fossil fuels run out.
The biggest obstacles are:
1. High cost – unless they are mass produced
2. short range – technicality
3. lack of fueling stations – nonsense. Someone/s will recognize this need and fill it
4. big oil – still has plenty of fossil fuels to burn before they turn their attention to this possibility, so what’s the rush?
Let’s hope that hydrogen fuel is NOT always the hope of the future but sometime becomes the answer to the present.
What do you think?
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