GM ends improvement of hydrogen gasoline cells

In a bulletin on Friday, GM announced that it’ll finish its HYDROTEC model’s work on hydrogen gasoline cell improvement. As an alternative, GM will focus its R&D efforts on batteries, charging applied sciences and electrical autos. The corporate mentioned it’ll proceed its Gas Cell System Manufacturing three way partnership with Honda, which creates cells for information facilities and power generation. 

The submit from GM mentioned that resulting from restricted infrastructure and excessive prices, hydrogen cells merely have not taken off for shopper autos. These days, the automotive trade appears to agree. GM’s shift follows an identical transfer in February from Toyota, which is not fully giving up the ghost however as a substitute pivoted its hydrogen cell initiatives to deal with industrial functions reasonably than shopper ones.