I ’m all for hydrogen - or any alternative fuel reservoir for that topic ( Shai Agassi , my man , let’sget make already!)-but if you ’re rifle to heavily promote your cross - country trek as the “ first ever ” for hydrogen - powered vehicles , at least ensure large , 1,000 - mile stretches of it did not involve deliver the vehicles carried along on flatbed trucks . This was the case today as the “ Hydrogen Road Tour ’ 08 ” wrapped up in Los Angeles after its 60 - impregnable vehicle fleet entered the Los Angeles Coliseum . From Rolla , Missouri , to Albuquerque , New Mexico , the caravan was carry on the back of carbon paper - belching flat seam tractor house trailer trucks . Does n’t that variety of vote out the intent of an alternative fuel road trip right on then and there?Part of the gaff was , of course , due to that fact that there are just 60 H station in the U.S. , and only two of those are open to the populace “ without anterior arrangement , ” says Reuters . Nevertheless , event promoter Catherine Dunwoody , executive director of the California Fuel Cell Partnership ( a major circuit supporter ) , was optimistic about atomic number 1 ’s chances . “ There ’s a thirstiness out there for clean , good vehicles , ” Brubaker say . “ The vernacular chorus everywhere we went was ‘ Where do we get these cars ? ' ” As a personal by , I , too , would be interested in such a speculation , particularly if it intend large belt of my sunrise commute involved hopping on the back of a truck , and having someone else do the driving for me . More earnestly , hydrogen as a major fuel beginning is pretty much nowhere near becoming mainstream . As the article observe , bigwig auto makers like Honda and General Motors only have plan to test a fistful of hydrogen vehicles this yr and next in select mart . A good - case scenario out of the car industry has only 2 million hydrogen - powered electric vehicles on the roads by 2020 . At least there was some multifariousness on this cross - country trip : railroad car were provided by Honda , GM , Toyota Motor Corp , Ford Motor Co , BMW AG , Daimler AG , Hyundai Motor Co , Nissan Motor Co , and Volkswagen AG . No word on those flatbeds . [ Reuters ]
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