Other Hydrogen Vehicles

In addition to its own hydrogen ICE bus. Ford worked with ISE Corporation to create the first bus using a hybridized hydrogen internal 

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GM also announced an agreement with the BMW Group to jointly develop refueling devices for liquid hydrogen vehicles and invited other carmakers and suppliers to join this initiative. 

The most recent wave for hydrogen-vehicle market introduction arose with announcements by Daimler and Toyota in 1997 of the production of fuel-cell cars in 2004 (see Fig. 8.1). After this, other car manufacturers joined the hydrogen race. 

Fuel cells can also be used for other purposes. Think about the energy used by a car or other transportation vehicles. Fuel cells could be an excellent source of electrical energy for the cars and buses of the future. In fact, some researchers think that if hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles become common, they will cost less than half of what gasoline powered-vehicles cost today. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will also be easier to take care of because there will be fewer parts to repair or replace. 

Figure 6-4 also displays two other trajectories of gasoline consumption. The first shows an estimate of gasoline consumption in the absence of either hybrid electric vehicles or hydrogen vehicles. It shows that gasoline consumption would continue increasing at rates consistent with historical... 

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