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NAVC Releases New Fuel Cell Study Future Wheels

1 November 2000

NAVC Releases New Fuel Cell Study Future Wheels

    BOSTON, Nov. 1 The Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium
(NAVC) released a new report today entitled Future Wheels: Interviews with 42
Global Experts on the Future of Fuel Cells For Transportation, Fuel Cell
Infrastructure, and a Fuel Cell Primer.
    In this report, which is available free at http://www.navc.org, the goal was to
ask a number of global experts on fuel cell infrastructure related to
transportation to see if there was consensus or disagreement on major issues
related to the advancement of fuel cell technology, and its introduction into
the market place, especially with regard to infrastructure issues.

    Some of the questions asked include:
    "When do you expect that fuel cells will be viable to capture a
significant, initial market share (for example, 5%) of the ground
transportation market for transit applications?  For passenger vehicles?
Why?"
    "Will hybrid electric vehicles be an interim step to fuel cell vehicles or
a long-term technology?"
    "In your opinion, what fuel will most likely be used in the near term in
fuel cell transportation applications? Why?"
    A second section of this report gives the current technology status of
fuel cells for transportation and their related infrastructure written by M.J.
Bradley & Associates.
    The findings are presented in the 80+ page report with an executive
summary.
    The report was funded by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency
(DARPA)