Automaker Announces Fuel Cell-Powered Vehicles ABC NEWS' Bob Woodruff reports on the future of automobile fuel systems. The five-seat compact can reach 90 miles per hour and travel 280 miles without refueling. Now, we begin the race to make the vehicles affordable to our customers. Chrysler hopes to bring the first models onto the market in 2004. By using fuel cells to convert hydrogen and oxygen into electricity to power, the new engine produces nothing but a trail of water vapor.
Environmentalists hail it as a major step forward in reducing air pollution and global warming.
Well, today we see that we can and by applying the very same technology that powered us to the moon and powers the space shuttles today. About 200 million gasoline-powered vehicles are on the road today in the United States. That number will reach 270 million by 2010, according to Browner, whose agency is expected to soon release stricter fuel emission requirements. Fuel cell-driven cars may prove particularly popular in California, which has adopted a standard of zero emissions by 2003 for 10 percent of the cars sold there. Every one of these cars is an electrical generator that could be plugged into your home.