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FUEL CELL VEHICLES CLOSING IN ON COMMERCIAL LAUNCH.

Advanced Materials & Composites News, August, 2002

July 29, 2002 - General Motors, at its new Fuel Cell Development Center research facility in Honeoye Falls, New York (near Rochester), announced that Germany's Technical Inspection Association has certified a composite high-pressure hydrogen storage tank with enough capacity to make fuel cells viable for powering vehicles.

"These collaborative efforts with Quantum represent another step toward understanding how fuel cell vehicles will be capable of a range equal to or greater than today's vehicles powered by internal combustion engines," said Frank Colvin, GM vice president for fuel cell commercialization. "The work we'll do at this new building holds the key to affordability and durability," said Larry Burns, GM's Vice President of Research and...

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