I'm just back from China. Waht a week. Among other amazing experiences, we got to go for a ride in one of only 19 GM Sequel hydrogen minivans. The car is remarkably similar to a regular vehicle, except for a small computer screen on the dash that provides a detailed diagnostic readout on the hydrogen fuel cell stack. That's my colleague Mike Liebhold of the Institute for the Future behind the wheel.
I'm just back from China. Waht a week. Among other amazing experiences, we got to go for a ride in one of only 19 GM Sequel hydrogen minivans.
The car is remarkably similar to a regular vehicle, except for a small computer screen on the dash that provides a detailed diagnostic readout on the hydrogen fuel cell stack.
That's my colleague Mike Liebhold of the Institute for the Future behind the wheel.
There's a lot more information about the Sequel on GM's website, and this 2002 Wired article offers a pretty good and still relevant overview of GM's over $1 billion project to develop hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
GM has clearly created a prototype that would be at home in a Wal-Mart parking lot (in Seattle or Shanghai for that matter). But at over $1 million each, it looks like we're at least 10-15 years away from large-scale production of these vehicles.
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