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GM partners with hydrogen storage business for fuel cell cars.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, July, 2001
GM announced 12 June that it has bought a 20 percent interest in Quantum Technologies Inc., a unit of Impco Technologies, Inc., based in Irvine, California.
According to Larry Burns, GM vice president for R&D and planning, "An alliance between GM and Quantum is the next logical step on this long road to a hydrogen future." [Fuel cells create electricity from a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, with water vapor the only tailpipe emission.] Burns said current H2 tanks store the volatile gas at 2,500 to 3,000 pounds per square inch (psi) providing a driving range of about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to 150 miles (240 kilometers).
This compares with today's internal combustion (IC) cars and trucks fueled by gasoline can travel up to 400 miles (645...
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