Canada to build GM’s first 100 fuel-cell SUVs
General Motors, one-upping BMW’s announcement around its planned hydrogen-powered cars, plans to build more than 100 Chevrolet Equinox SUVs containing a fuel-cell propulsion system. The fuel-cell fleet will be manufactured in Oshawa, Ontario, with funding assistance from the provincial and federal governments. “A comprehensive deployment plan, dubbed ‘Project Driveway,’ is designed to gain comprehensive learnings on all aspects of the customer experience and constitutes the first meaningful market test of fuel cell vehicles anywhere,” according to a statement from GM Canada. “A variety of drivers, in differing driving environments, will operate these vehicles in three geographic areas where hydrogen refueling is feasible: California, the New York metropolitan area, and Washington, D.C.”
Would be nice to test them in Toronto, given that we supposely have a “Hydrogen Village” composed of a hydrogen filling station at Exhibition Place.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca