Originally published March 22 2005
GM, Sandia Lab cooperating to create hydrogen fuel tank
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
General Motors and the Sandia National Laboratory are working together to create a fuel tank for cars capable of containing hydrogen fuel safely. GM wants to have a market-ready hydrogen-fuelled vehicle by 2010. It has created a prototype, the Sequel, which has competitive performance characteristics, but which is not ready for mass production.
General Motors is working with scientists at Sandia National Laboratory to develop a hydrogen fuel tank for cars, company officials said Monday as they toured the Livermore, Calif., facility.
Larry Burns, GM vice president of research and development planning, said the company hopes to have a marketable hydrogen fuel cell vehicle by 2010.
To that end, GM has signed a four-year, $10 million contract with the government lab, which has worked for more than 40 years on hydrogen storage technologies.
"Our goal is to squeeze as much hydrogen energy as possible into the same space we devote to petroleum fuel tanks," said Chris Moen, manager of Sandia's science and engineering technology department (Betsy Mason, Contra Costa Times, March 8).
GM has produced a hydrogen concept car, the Sequel, which is capable of matching gasoline-powered cars in terms of range and acceleration but is not affordable enough to mass-produce.
The company said it can power a hydrogen car at a cost of about $500 per kilowatt, but it estimates that it needs to lower the cost to $50 per kilowatt in order to make it cheap enough for the assembly line (Greenwire, Jan. 31).
Nokia spikes plans for methanol-powered mobile phone Meanwhile, Nokia said it has halted plans to develop fuel cell-powered mobile phones.
Last June, Nokia research head Tero Ojanpera showed off a headset that powered by a methanol-air fuel cell and said the technology was less than two years from the marketplace.
Nokia spokesman Matti Naskali said several technical issues had halted the company's fuel cell research, but he said it could be restarted in the future.
"Fuel cell technology is promising and Nokia continues to follow it closely" (BBC News online, March 4).
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