Getting Back into Gear: Fuel Cell Development After the Hype

Abstract

Just over a decade ago in this magazine, the question was posed, “Is There a Fuel Cell in Your Future?” While the author of that article wisely refrained from explicit predictions and carefully spelled out a lot of the key challenges that lay ahead for fuel cell development at the time, readers who read the article and who read about fuel cells in the mainstream press could be forgiven for assuming that the answer might well be “Yes. And soon.”