GM VP: We need more hydrogen fueling stations

I know it's kind of an ironic thing to hear a vice president of a major automobile maker say "help us", but that is exactly what GM Vice President Larry Burns said at the National Hydrogen Association conference--and he was speaking right at the energy industry and government. The message was loud and clear: We've got the technology, now let's have the meat.

Piggybacking a new study that resulted in the finding that a hydrogen infrastructure is economically viable and doable. Burns basically put a challenge out to those industries--citing that the question is no longer can and should the technology be forwarded, but now how? The biggest issue--according to GM--is that the automakers, who are fastly and furiously trying to figure out more ways to develop hydrogen fuel cell-electric cars, but in order to do so--the energy and government sectors have got to start opening up their wallets.

“Clearly, the automobile industry has stepped forward with fuel cell-electric vehicles, and we are doing everything possible to aggressively develop this critically important technology,” Burns said. “However, we have reached a stage where we cannot continue to make significant progress on our own. Our customers must have safe and convenient access to affordable hydrogen. This means the energy industry and governments must join the auto industry in our journey to produce and sell fuel cell-electric vehicles in volume numbers.”

Bold statements--and while of course this will eventually mean lining GM's pockets deeper because of the sales that will result, it does say one thing--we are making our way towards newer, better technologies that will make our reliance on fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaurs (of course, I'll believe that when I see it).

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