The new rules should help promote hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as well, regulators said.
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EVs, even hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, are a blast: you get sportiness along with a lifestyle statement about conserving resources.
The idea is to plug in electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to the buildings to power up our vehicles.
And also hydrogen fuel cell vehicles where the hydrogen is produced by wind and solar power and also hydroelectric geothermal power.
Honda was the first to certify fuel cell vehicles for private use in the U.S. and is already leasing a few to individuals in California.
The purpose of the program is to facilitate the development of commercially viable fuel cell bus technologies and increase public acceptance of the fuel cell vehicles.
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Hybrids, fuel cell vehicles, they're all still a small drop in the bucket compared to the overall driving that we do in the United States, which is with petroleum products.
This is currently being done with large-scale investment into plug-in electric vehicles, and "clearly, we can use this technology to go across to fuel cell vehicles", he explains.
With Plug Power, he mentioned, Honda is testing a home fueling unit that can generate hydrogen from natural gas, an important step in development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
It is also difficult to store hydrogen something the U.S. Department of Energy has said is the top priority when it comes to commercializing fuel cell vehicles.
Yozo Kami, Honda's fuel cell chief, promises to solve all of fuel cell vehicles' technical problems by 2012 and to have the cost of fuel cells at "Accord-level" by 2020.
With Plug Power (nasdaq: PLUG - news - people ), he mentioned, Honda is testing a home fueling unit that can generate hydrogen from natural gas, an important step in development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
If the EPA uses the same calculation for fuel cells as for battery vehicles, whereby the energy used to charge the battery is counted and deducted from the mileage label, fuel cell vehicles would be rated at about 80 mpg.
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He has shown a strong interest in turning the island into a giant laboratory when the switch to fuel cell vehicles begins in earnest 10 to 15 years from now, as well as in testing the safety of hydrogen gas stations, the long-term reliability of cars and the economic viability of fuel cells.
Earlier this week, Honda produced the first commercial hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, which will rely on natural gas-derived hydrogen for fuel and will be leased for use in Los Angeles.
In a survey of auto industry executives conducted by KPMG, respondents expected that among electric vehicles, hybrids will have the highest customer demand by 2025, followed by fuel-cell vehicles, outdoing the demand of battery-powered cars.
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Even more important, the plasmatron could speed the long- awaited transition to hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles.
Fuel cell electric vehicles generate their power from hydrogen and oxygen, and emit only water.
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Toyota and BMW said they would expand a technology-sharing pact to speed the development of fuel-cell vehicles.
The advantages fuel-cell vehicles have over cars like the Leaf and Volt are shorter refueling times and greater range.
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But most say it is at least ten years before fuel-cell vehicles will be for sale at an affordable price.
Nope, GM just wanted to talk about its research efforts to store hydrogen onboard fuel-cell vehicles within a solid substance.
Nope, GM just wanted to talk about its research efforts to store hydrogen within a solid substance onboard fuel-cell vehicles.
Additionally, the president called for expanding his existing tax credit proposal, which currently applies to hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles, to include those using new clean diesel technology.
As well as two fuel-cell systems for vehicles (one for cars, another for buses and lorries), there are separate systems for large and small generators fridge-sized units running on natural gas to provide electricity for a building that is not attached to the grid.
In August, China said it would begin developing a large-scale demonstration project in 10 or more cities to put at least 1, 000 hybrid, fuel-cell and all-electric vehicles on the road in each of those cities and provide the necessary infrastructure for the project.
Research at the University of Florida's fuel cell lab aims largely at making such fuel cell systems more efficient and less polluting and integrating them with vehicles, he said.
Hyundai is set to announce plans to bring forward the mass production of hydrogen fuel cell cars, so we might see such vehicles on the road in just a couple of years.
Additional tax credits for choosing hybrid, fuel cell, alternative fuel and advanced lean-burn technology vehicles have been offered since 2005.
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The company has delivered a carefully worded pledge: GM will develop a hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicle that could compete on cost with traditional vehicles-if it were to be built in high volumes-by 2010.
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