The Chevrolet Sequel managed to make travel about 300 miles from Rodchester to Tarrytown, the longest trip ever by a hybrid on one tank of hydrogen (which just seems so strange to write).
GM also announced it hopes to have its hydrogen fuel cell system into mass production by 2012. Larry Burns, GM’s vice president of research and development told Reuters the holdups include a lack of hydrogen infrastructure and further development of lithium battery packs.
Last year GM announced it would build and make available 100 hydrogen powered Equinox crossovers in consumer hands by 2008 for testing. It’s the largest hydrogen roll out yet at automakers battle to bring the new technology to the market first. General Motors and Honda are generally seen as having the upper hand in this race between the automakers.
Earlier this year GM sources told the Automotive News, LLN and other news organizations the Volt could be in production as early as 2009 for MY2010. The Volt would be amongst the first of the next generation of hybrids using a plug in serial hybrid system.
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05/16, 1:29 PM
posted by:
Wonderwall
what?!
05/16, 1:32 PM
posted by:
PrimeGTP
I think the Volt is a more realistic candidate for success, but it’s nice to see this sort of thing making progress. I’m not sold on hydrogen yet, but I’ll keep an eye on it. I hope GM and Honda keep pushing each other.
05/16, 1:48 PM
posted by:
mrthinker2000
rodchester? uh…
05/16, 1:53 PM
posted by:
global_lightning
Don’t worry about the hydrogen infrastructure. By 2012 Honda will have most of it in place for the FCX and its successor.
05/16, 1:59 PM
posted by:
PrimeGTP
I highly doubt Honda is going to invest in an entire new company to build and maintain a nationwide or even global infrastructure.
05/16, 2:06 PM
posted by:
Hyperion
Hydrogen internal combustion engines get my vote.
05/16, 2:18 PM
posted by:
Blakkarr
Same, Though inefficient, they bring impetus to develop a very robust Hydrogen fuel infrastructure. The fact that most fuel injected IC engines would need around $1500-$2000 is upgrades on existing models (you take your car or truck in a pay that much, while new vehicles would have a far lower price hike unless you’re being taken for a sucker… happens a lot).
But in the short term, Gasoline or ethanol-mix hybid is more likely, Built along side the Volt.
05/16, 3:01 PM
posted by:
gbb
Hydrogen power of some sort is how its going to end up, so why not cut to the chase and get after it.
05/16, 3:18 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
to me this alternative fuel game is a huge joke it has been gas and always will be gasoline rich people just found a way to get richer of a product the masses need
05/16, 3:18 PM
posted by:
maximus
didn’t some company make a car that runs on air? where is that one?
05/16, 4:27 PM
posted by:
homeboy234
pathetic
05/16, 5:16 PM
posted by:
DialM4Speed
Hope fully GM can pull this off but my question is how much does Hydrogen cost anyway?
05/16, 5:40 PM
posted by:
Piablo
What is up with the new guy who writes these articles?? Just about every one of these new posts are riddled with typos!
Anyway, so much for GM being such a loser at alternative fuels. Sadly, the anti-GM crowd will go on.
Homeboy – For every good post you’ve been putting up lately, you remind us all of the junk you posted before with junk like “pathetic”. Try a little intellectual honesty for once.
05/16, 7:30 PM
posted by:
1c3d0g
Hyperion: fully agreed! ICE powered by Hydrogen is the winner, hands down!
05/16, 7:52 PM
posted by:
Fleming in Tennessee
If GM & Ford would install Hydrogen and/or Ethanol facilities at each of their dealers, then offer those fuels at cost for one year to each new customer, this could be a game changer! Buy an ethanol/hydrogen vehicle, get a self-service card good for one year fuel at cost. This would be a way for auto companies & us to hurt big oil, who rapes us daily.
05/16, 10:08 PM
posted by:
GMCsyclone#478
good idea Fleming.
05/16, 11:00 PM
posted by:
deantj
Who cares about this. Will never see the light of day, this is GM we’re talking about. Purveyors of crap.
05/17, 3:43 AM
posted by:
meekin111
shut your mouth deantj, you just cant take it that GM, the brand you so despise is beating toyota to the punch on hydrogen
05/17, 3:43 AM
posted by:
meekin111
shut your mouth deantj, you just cant take it that GM, the brand you so despise is beating toyota to the punch on hydrogen
05/17, 7:34 AM
posted by:
protonzdead2me
Doesn’t BMW also have a hydrogen powered vehicle (7-series)?
05/17, 10:05 PM
posted by:
06stc
^ Yeah, it’s conceptual, obviously, but it does work.
Hydrogen is obviously the fuel of choice for the long run. It’s renewable, clean, cheap, light, and even more powerful than gasoline. As far as engine inefficiency with hydrogen goes…piston engines only create work 13% of the time. A hyrdogen quasiturbine engine would be far more efficient in many aspects than a gasoline piston engine.
05/21, 4:49 PM
posted by:
illwill
this is good news for gm
05/30, 12:26 AM
posted by:
AgmLauncher
“Who cares about this. Will never see the light of day, this is GM we’re talking about. Purveyors of crap.”
GM will be leading Honda and Toyota in the “nexgen” race tbh. They are developing massively diverse propulsion platforms and will simply go with what works best. I don’t think GM will be struggling in the future. I think they’re actually going to pull out far ahead of their competition in the next 6-7 years.
It’s China that everyone should be worried about….