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Hydrogen vehicles: Fuel of the future?

Nature volume 464, pages 1262–1264 (2010)Cite this article

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

"The first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen and pollution-free," declared former US president George W. Bush in 2003, as he announced a US$1.2-billion hydrogen-fuel initiative to develop commercial fuel-cell vehicles by 2020.

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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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