Studies have said it takes more energy to produce hydrogen than it yields, and costs of its in-car storage and lack of infrastructure are major hurdles also seemingly brushed aside by some automakers, but not Volkswagen. Yesterday Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn told Automotive News that plug-in hybrids and natural gas engines have a much
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Hyundai has already announced plans to launch its ix35 hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in Europe and the UK, last week revealed the Euro-spec model in Geneva, and now it says the U.S. will get thousands beginning in 2015. According to a WardsAuto interview with John Krafcik, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, the FCEVs based on
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Over one half million hydrogen powered vehicles could be on UK roads by 2030. This is according to UKH2Mobility project, a joint British government-industry study published earlier this week. The forecast is made in an interim report commissioned to evaluate the benefits of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) and ensure the UK is well
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Hot on the heels of similar collaboration between Toyota and BMW, today from Yokohama Japan a joint fuel cell development deal was signed by Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company and Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. The goal is nothing less than the launch of the “world’s first affordable, mass-market” fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) by 2017.
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