MotorTrend (Digital)

MotorTrend (Digital)

1 Issue, February 2008

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“The fuel of the future” may not always be
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“ THE COMPANY DEVELOPED A PALLADIUM ALLOY THAT BEHAVES LIKE AN ULTRA-FINE-MESH SCREEN THROUGH WHICH ONLY HYDROGEN ATOMS—THE SMALLEST IN THE UNIVERSE—CAN PASS. ” I SWORE OFF further coverage of fuel-cell vehicles until my first test drive of a production prototype, quipping that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future—and always will be.” The darned stuff is simply too difficult to distribute, dispense, and store. Carrying enough fuel on board to deliver the kind of range customers expect these days requires pricey, bulky, (somewhat scary) tanks; compressing or liquefying it consumes too much energy. Then I heard about Power+Energy’s plan to power a fuel cell with conventional gas, diesel, or E85. Hold on, you’re thinking, didn’t Chrysler try that in 1999? Yep. The Commander concept carried what looked like a scale-model refinery…
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