Gm Launches Japan's First Commercial Fuel-Cell Vehicle

[TXAVy]

Wow, GM beating Honda and Toyota in the new, small, energy-efficient, low/no emissions arena and doing it in their own home country. Sounds like good news to me.

Yahoo News Story on GM Fuel-Cell Vehicle

Here are a few snippets...

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. auto giant General Motors Corp and FedEx Corp marked a first in Japan on Wednesday by delivering packages in a fuel-cell vehicle (FCV) -- the first approved for commercial use in the country.

By storing liquid hydrogen on board the vehicle, HydroGen3 can run for 400 km (250 miles) before refueling, GM said. That is about 100 km more than FCVs developed by Toyota and Honda. The Japanese government wants to lay the groundwork for full commercialization of FCVs by 2005, with the aim of having five million of the vehicles on the road by 2020.