The development of controlled fuel cells has still a long way to go and it doesn’t seem to get any better any time soon, says Volkswagen
It is not the thing of past when everybody was talking about the alternative energy sources for the trucks, cars and the buses as they won’t run on diesel, petrol or gas for long because hydrogen was under consideration. Now, Volkswagen, a leading automaker has confessed that fuel cells are not feasible for future. Despite years and years of working on hydrogen fuel cells and availability of hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, things are not poised to get any better any time soon in the near future.
The president of Volkswagen for Japan said that there is very rare chance of expanding the fuel cell vehicles out of the Japan. Japanese government is giving subsidies on these kind of vehicles and a buyer of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in Japan can receive a subsidy of $28,500 from government on buying a zero emission vehicle.
It is very difficult and expensive to transport and store the hydrogen, developing the necessary infrastructure to facilitate the fuel cell vehicles and making them available to everyone.
Toyota prepares to launch fuel cell vehicle in the America and in West Coast but this statement from Volkswagen may cause some hurdles for their sales, says an automotive journalist. Toyota expects the cost to fill up the Fuel cell vehicle at around $50.
Volkswagen spokesperson said, “There are still a lot of questions lingering about how practical it is even though Toyota launches next year. By the time it gets very usable by the normal customers, it’s maybe still a decade or two decades away.” Let’s see Toyota’s fuel cell vehicles perform any better in the market, or they just perform as Volkswagen thinks FCV’s would.
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