Good-bye petroleum, hello hydrogen; Iceland poised to switch petroleum-using fleets to sustainable energy.

Automotive News Europe,  December, 2006  by Moran, Tim

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Byline: Tim Moran

Geysers rather than gushers could provide the fuel of the future, experts such as General Motors' Larry Burns say.

That's why this year General Motors took journalists to Iceland, where plumes of steam dot lava-covered hillsides.

Burns, GM's head of research and development, affirmed last spring that GM will validate a hydrogen vehicle design by 2010 to compete with internal combustion technology. Production of such cars may not begin for several years. But Burns predicts that soon 500,000 to 1 million hydrogen vehicles will be made annually worldwide.

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