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Charging
Ahead
Engineers
at major corporations are working to optimize fuel cell systems
for a variety of commercial uses.
"We have to figure out markets in which they make sense,"
says Mohr. "It's a classic problem of any new technology."
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fuel cell-powered bus transports students at Georgetown
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Members
of the California Fuel Cell Partnership think the automotive
industry might be just the market. The 18-member group includes
eight car companies, fuel cell manufacturers, government agencies
and energy companies. The partnership brings these complementary
interests together to map out the route fuel cells must take
from the lab to the highway.
"These
groups need to work together if this technology is going to
fly," says the Partnership's communications director Joe Irvin.
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The Partnership aims to have a fleet of fuel cell-powered
cars on the roads by 2004
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The
Partnership's main goals are to test fuel cell-powered automobiles,
while at the same time raising public awareness, an important
step on the road to commercialization.
"We're at the ramping up stage right now," says Irvin, "getting
the vehicles out, racking up the miles."
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