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BMW presents liquid hydrogen storage for cars
BMW presents liquid hydrogen storage for cars
Wayne Cunningham Managing Editor / Roadshow
Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began covering technology and the Web in 1994 as an editor of The Net magazine.
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The California Air Resources Board wrapped up its yesterday, which covered everything from new battery technologies to hydrogen-powered airplanes. Although I didn't attend the symposium, some highlights that I found particularly interesting were a presentation on BMW's work on using liquid hydrogen in cars, Altairnano's use of lithium titanate in batteries, and AeroVironment's development of hydrogen fuel-cell airplanes. Boiled down, the message from the presentations is that while researchers continually make small breakthroughs, alternative energy storage in vehicles won't approach gasoline-equivalent numbers until 2015. Many of the presentations are available as PDF files here.