No automaker has yet to offer a fuel-cell-powered car for sale to customers, although Honda has said it plans to lease a number of the fuel-cell cars to customers as soon as 2008.
America's Department of Transportation is planning a rule change from October 1st to allow passengers and crew to bring fuel-cell-powered electronic devices and one or two fuel cartridges on board in their carry-on baggage.
After spending a recent weekend tooling around suburban Detroit in a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Honda Motor FCX , I was struck by a remarkable image: By the time my 9-year-old daughter is shopping for her first car, she may well be considering an entirely different kind of automobile--one that runs on hydrogen, not gasoline.
California regulators voted to mandate major automakers substantially increase the numbers of electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell-powered models in their fleets in the coming years, eventually accounting for 15.4 percent of all vehicles sold in the state by 2025.
FORBES: California Orders Automakers To Sell More Plug-In and Fuel-Cell Cars
Even more important, the plasmatron could speed the long- awaited transition to hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles.
Honda saw sales of its fuel cell-powered FXC Clarity jump 150 percent in 2012, to five units from two in 2011.
Travellers will have to wait until this autumn to get their hands on the most anticipated fuel cell-powered charger, when US-based retailer Brookstone unveils its micro-USB power charger.
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.
CNN: Hydrogen fuel-cell cars look to overtake electric autos
Point Source Power, a project out of Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, has created a dung-powered fuel cell for emerging markets.
It is powered by a hydrogen fuel-cell engine, which converts hydrogen gas into energy.
The 84 million kWh combined solar power will be added to the 40 million kWh of electricity that will be produced by an onsite biogas-powered 5-megawatt fuel cell installation for a total of 124 million kWh of clean onsite power.
And United Technologies, which makes Sikorsky helicopters, has flown a large model electric-helicopter powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.
Despite the slow sales of battery-powered cars, the head-start they have over fuel-cell cars gives them a definitive advantage in terms of price.
CNN: Hydrogen fuel-cell cars look to overtake electric autos
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