Hydrogen Cars Won't Be Reality Until 2020

Finally! Someone is writing about hydrogen vehicles with a sense of reality. Dan Vegano, my new hero, writes for USA Today and explains how and why 2020 is a conservative estimate for all of us to be driving around in hydrogen-powered cars.

He’s not talking up expensive hydrogen prototypes by Honda and GM as “almost here” or as political ammunition. He explains that it will take a huge undertaking by not only automakers but the government, public and energy companies to make a hydrogen infrastructure work by 2020.

One bright spot for hydrogen hopefuls out there is that since the government released its last study in 2002 — estimating a 2023 timeframe — hydrogen technology has greatly advanced. Heck, there weren’t hundreds of hydrogen prototypes running around back then.

So far, hydrogen-powered cars are fuel for future thoughts (USA Today)

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It will be a great day when these cars do make it on the market. Far too long the oil companies have held all the cards. As car drivers we have no choice but to pay whatever a gallon of gas costs us. I do predict that when hydrogen cars start selling expect the oil companies to suddenly drop the cost of gas in hope to lure people to continue driving their current cars.

Kj, who do you think you'll be buying hydrogen from for your fuel cell car? BP for one is getting into hydrogen, so the oil companies aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

the honda fcx is here! well at least in california! but the main problem is that we dont hae a system in place for hydrogen. getting off oil is needed and important but if u think that oil is going away in 10 years or so u are simply not right. More like 2030-2040