Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities?

Filed under: Toyota , Legislation and Policy Toyota Prius PHEV - click above for high-res image gallery Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to miss the requirements and you pay a fine. For the carrot, things get a bit more complicated.

GM not giving up on hydrogen fuel cells yet! Production planned for 2012

Filed under: Hydrogen , GM Chevrolet fuel cell Equinox - click above for a high-res image gallery The current administration in Washington clearly doesn’t favor the pursuit of hydrogen fuel cells , but that doesn’t mean General Motors is giving up on the technology. In spite of the pending retirement of Larry Burns , VP of research and development, his replacement, Alan Taub, remains committed to bringing fuel cells to production. GM’s fifth generation fuel cell stack is comparable in size to a 2.4-liter EcoTec four cylinder and far less expensive to manufacture than past iterations of the fuel cell stack

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