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Hydrogen vehicles: Fuel of the future?

Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, largely forgotten as attention turned to biofuels and batteries, are staging a comeback. Jeff Tollefson investigates.

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Tollefson, J. Hydrogen vehicles: Fuel of the future?. Nature 464, 1262–1264 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4641262a

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