Honda And GM To Build Fuel Cells Together In Michigan

General Motors Co. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. equally will together invest $85 million to expand their fuel-cell partnership into a new manufacturing venture in southeast Michigan, the companies announced Monday.

Fuel Cell System Manufacturing LLC — the auto industry’s first joint venture for fuel-cell manufacturing — will operate inside GM’s battery pack assembly plant in Brownstown Township. The companies plan to mass-produce a hydrogen fuel-cell system to be used in vehicles from each company starting around 2020. The work is expected to create nearly 100 new jobs, the company said.

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TheSteve - 1/30/2017 12:41:03 PM

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Awesome! Building hydrogen fuel cells, while forgetting...

...There are, what, 12 hydrogen filling stations in the US?

...So far, we haven't figured out how to convert ambient hydrogen into a fuel-usable form cleanly or economically. It requires HUGE amounts of electricity, 2/3 of which is generated by burning stuff in the US. And science says we're nowhere close to cracking this nut.

...It's actually cleaner and more energy-efficient to generate less "clean" electricity (i.e., burn less stuff) and put it into (EV) batteries, than to use a lot more electricity to convert ambient hydrogen into fuel form, then convert that fuel-hydrogen back into electricity using a fuel cell, and then use that electricity to drive an electric motor the same distance.

...no infrastructure to manufacture, store, or transport fuel-hydrogen, let alone the mass quantities you'd need for mass consumer adoption.

Aside from these factors, great idea. Go clean, cheap, hydrogen-powered fuel cells.