GM still working on fuel cells

From http://wardsauto.com/ar/gm_fuel_cell_090924/

With all the trouble GM has had in the last year its good to know that they are looking to the future still. Their second generation fuel cell technology was unvailed yesterday to lawmakers in Washington. Why there? They are trying to get more funds to further their research.

And this isn't a bad thing in my opinion. If the US government really wants to get off fossil fuels and away from foreign sources of energy then this is the way to do it. GM claims this technology will be ready for the market by 2015. While the article doesn't say exactly how many miles the new vehicles get on a tank of fuel the common standard is 300 and that is basically what the last one got. So by making the new equipment cheaper and smaller it cuts the weight of the vehicle and the cost while giving the same performance.

Hydrogen as a fuel is still anywhere from $4 to $8 a gallon when compared with gas so it isn't cheap. But a recent news article says that in order to cut carbon emissions in the US that the government and other countries should stop subsidizing fossil fuels. If they did that gas prices would easily go back to the 2008 levels or above here in the US making hydrogen a good option. Now we just need a fueling infrastructure to support it.