No More Hydrogen Cars?

Filed in archive Automobiles on May 22, 2009

There's been a lot of nergy legislation news in the past couple of weeks. But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal supportfunding for hydrogen cars seems to have collapsed for now:

The money was stripped because the president and Steven Chu, his energy secretary, said hydrogen fueled cars are still decades away and that they'd rather concentrate on more immediate energy-saving solutions.

I've said before that I think we'll eventually see the internal combustion engine become a thing of the past. But if we have to burn something, hydrogen certainly looked like the best long term option.


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