Comments on: GM Unveils 5th Generation Stack

By: Philip Block

Philip Block — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:51:09 +0000

Mr.Adler, As a suggestion, would GM be willing to make their Fuel Cell available to consortiums that would be willing to produce a marketable FC vehicle? The rechargeable battery vehicle seems to have no end of people willing to invest in companies that claim that they have the ideal battery operated EV. Since GM appears to have done the majority of the engineering for a FC vehicle, would it not be advantageoous to lease or sell that engineering work? Just a thought!

By: Philip Block

Philip Block — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:46:55 +0000

“All these improvements show that engineers at GM have yet to hit the wall when it comes to fuel cell technology research.” This profound statement is one of the great reasons Fuel Cell vehicles have a glorous future and rechargeable electric vehicles have slammed into the wall. The electro-chemistry for a super battery (a myth) does not exist and rechargeable EVs will never be more that they were in Edison’s day, with all the new technology. GM is on the right course with Fuel Cells and time will prove them right.

By: Alan Adler

Alan Adler — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:03:16 +0000

I work in fuel cell communications at GM. There is an important difference between have a commercially viable fuel cell stack by 2012 and having a fuel cell vehicle program. We expect to have the fuel cell stack but we have not announced a vehicle program in which it would be used. GM continues to believe hydrogen fuel cells are an important part of the nation’s mid- to long-range energy future if we are to have a chance of reducing CO2 emissions by 80 percent by 2050 vs. 1990 levels.