Hi everyone! Hope your May is off to a good start.  Today, I’d like to share with you several fuel cell - supportive comments from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers as relayed by their Director of Research, Dr. Kathryn Clay.  

Dr. Clay recently gave a testimony before the House Committee on Science and Technology, and had some really great things to say about the possiblities of fuel cell vehicles.  Her whole testimony can be found here, but here’s a taste of her message:

Meeting our national goals of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and reducing our reliance on foreign oil will require the development of a suite of technologies. Responding to this challenge, automakers are leaders in research and development investment -total R&D investment by the industry was $79 billion in 2007, up 8 percent from the previous year. Automakers invest in a diverse array of vehicle technologies. There is no “silver bullet,” or one right answer, to what the autos of the future should look like. In the coming decades, the vehicle fleet will likely be much more diverse technologically, with growing proportions of flex fuel, clean diesel, fuel cell, hydrogen internal combustion engine, hybrid electric and pure electric vehicles.  

Sound familiar anyone? She goes on to talk about the successes of the DOE H2 and Fuel Cell Learning Demonstration program, and encourages the committee to continue to support this effort.  

She concludes by saying “We look forward to working with the [DOE] to advance a diverse array of vehicle technologies.  In doing so, we will position our industry to be at the cutting edge of the new clean energy economy.”  We couldn’t agree with Dr. Clay more.