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-Hydrogen clearly provides the potential for huge energy and environmental improvements. -The industry, or at least an important slice of it, sees **fuel**cells as its inevitable and desired future. -They have the potential to provide most of the benefits of battery-electric vehicles without the short range and long recharge time. -They offer quiet operation, rapid acceleration from a standstill because of the torque characteristics of electric motors, and potentially low maintenance requirements. -By eliminating most mechanical and hydraulic subsystems, they provide greater design flexibility and the potential for using fewer vehicle platforms, which allow more efficient manufacturing approached -**Fuel** cells are a logical extension of the technological pathway automakers are already following and would allow a superior consumer product--if **fuel** cell costs become competitive and if hydrogen **fuel** can be made widely available at a reasonable cost. -It notes that not only are **fuel** cells superior environmentally, but they also provide extra value to customers. -They have the potential to provide most of the benefits of battery-electric vehicles without the short range and long recharge time. -They offer quiet operation, rapid acceleration from a standstill because of the torque characteristics of electric motors, and potentially low maintenance requirements. -They can provide remote electrical power--for construction sites and recreational uses, for example--and even act as distributed electricity generators when parked at homes and offices -Oil companies will not allow the hydrogen economy to develop without them. -some have played key roles in promoting hydrogen, and many are active participants in hydrogen-refueling demonstration projects around the world. -But hydrogen is different. It accesses a broad array of energy resources, potentially provides broader and deeper societal benefits than any other option, potentially provides large private benefits, has no natural political or economic enemies, and has a strong industrial proponent in the automotive industry -**Fuel** cells and hydrogen provide a good marker to use in formulating policy and gaining public support. -For starters, hydrogen is highly inclusive, capable of being made from virtually any energy feedstock, including coal, nuclear, natural gas, biomass, wind, and solar -It effectively opposed battery-electric vehicles, because companies saw no business case for themselves.

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