DETROIT – In part two of the Hydrogen Forecast’s discussion with Larry Burns, the GM technology guru turns to the automaker’s competitors and the race to bring fuel cell vehicles into the mainstream market.
In the arena of fuel cell development, companies such as Honda, Daimler, Ford – and of course GM – have been very vocal about their programs. They regularly have public displays of their progress, ranging from GM’s 300-mile drive with the Sequel concepts in May 2007 to the land speed record captured by Ford with the Hydrogen Fusion 999 last summer.
“My sense is that between ourselves, Honda, Toyota and Daimler, I think the auto industry is getting real close to having shown that fuel cell vehicles are real,” Burns says. “By real, it can give you the acceleration, the packaging, the range, the safety and everything that a customer expects.
“If we can get that through two or three more cycles of technology and to a volume of a million, it’s going to be real in terms of cost as well,” he adds.
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