Market future of fuel cell cars

 Hello everybody, today we're publishing what we think is an important step forward in the world of fuel cell and is that Mercedes Benz has finally announced their new B-class fuel cell car as you can see in the official website http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/benz/green. It's characteristics equivalent to a standar family car with a range of up to 240 miles, the equivalent of nearly 90 highway mpg, and only water vapor as its emissions. However is still not competitive with the other cars, the ones with internal combustion engine, because of its price. Although responsibles say that te price is not specified yet  the speculated price in TV programs such as Top Gear  is very high and people who can afford such a price for a car prefer a more powerful gasoline car. But the B-class won´t be at market officialy until 2014 ans as Dieter Zetsche, chairman of the board of management of Daimler and head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, has said in  (http://www.insideline.com/mercedes-benz/mercedes-benz-fuel-cell-car-ready-for-market-in-2014.html), they want to make prices more competitive so we don't loose our hope. In the video below appears the previously mentioned Dieter Zetsche presenting the car in the Detroit auto show.

This is an important bet for the future of fuel cell in market and, as we support this energy source, best luck and wishes to Mercedes-Benz in the development of this car. 

The near future

Although fuel cells are a newborn energy source, as you can see in the video, it is likely to be an important source in a near future. Nowadays fuel cells cannot compete with the internal combustion engine but the rising prices of oil and pollution make this clean energy an important source to consider.

Different countries have started to introduce fuel cell stations and the're doing really well. The first station was built in Reikjavik, Iceland in 2003 but since then other countries have implemented these refueling stations into their services. The leader country in this sector is The US with an important amount of 85 refueling stations allover the country. Japan, Canada, Norway or Sweeden would be other countries who bet for this kind of clean energy.

However, as you can see in the video or in most of websites is that this energy source has only succeed on being comercial for public transport as more than 100 fuel cell propulsed buses are circulating around the world, because although many different type of vehicles have been developped in order to work with hydrogen cells they still being too expensive or not efficient enough but we will write about it in further entries. But I previously mentioned this is a newborn energy and research is needed to improve it and in this blog we will follow that research objectively in spite of the controversy about de real power behind fuel cells.

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell

Gorka