Sentences with phrase «fuel cell cars still»

But fuel cell cars still face enormous hurdles.

Not exact matches

While they still can't store as much total energy as a fuel cell or a battery, ultracapacitors — also known as electrochemical capacitors — can supply the burst of energy needed to accelerate up a hill or around another car on the highway.

CARB is still trying to ignore the fact that hydrogen fuel cells will not be operating in many cars ever, and in fact any hydrogen fuel cells should be operated instead in a stationary situation to use the heat in a cogeneration system to charge batteries for plug in hybrids whilst providing heat or cooling to a building and to use their high efficiency 24 hours a day instead of a few hours commuting.

In July 2011, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, Daniel Akerson, stated that while the cost of hydrogen fuel cell cars is decreasing: «The car is still too expensive and probably won't be practical until the 2020 - plus period, I don't know.»

It ain't even an energy source, and after billions of dollars of public and private research in the past 15 years — including several years running of being the single biggest focus of the DOE office on climate solutions I once ran — it still has actually no chance whatsoever of delivering a major cost - effective climate solution by midcentury (see «This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still dead»).