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They are among 100 Chevrolet Equinoxcrossover fuel-cellp vehicles being tested under real-world conditions in Los Angeles, New York City, D.C., and several overseaxs locations. The testing is aimed at makin the vehicles available to consumers in the next few saidDaniel O’Connell, director of fuel cell commercializatiob at GM’s fuel cell research laboratory near “We’ll probably have a production modekl ready for showrooms in 2014 or he said. “We don’t know what bran it will be, but Chevrolet would give us highvolumes applications, a reasonable price and fits our global O’Connell said.
The program, dubbed Project Driveway, begam in 2008 to get real-world driving impressions and experiencesxfrom short-term loans of the fuel-cell vehiclesa prior to rolling them out for leasre or sale. Since the starty 18 months ago, they have logged more than 700,00o0 miles, 10,000 fills at hydrogen fillingv stations, and proven through two frigic winters and blistering summerws that the technologyis viable, O’Connell said. What remain s before fuel-cell vehicles hit the road en massed is for a network of hydrogen fillinfg stations to be established across New York stated and throughoutthe nation, he said.
At present, ther are nine hydrogen stations in New York but none in theBuffalio area, where O’Connell’s research lab in Honeoye Fallz partners with in Tonawanda for hydrogen. Praxaif (NYSE: PX) is an industrial gas supplied in North and South America and hassome 1,100 locapl employees. Of the nine stations in New York, wherr GM also partners with the (NYSERDA), localp municipalities and colleges to setthem up, three are in one in Albany, two in the Hudson Valley, one in the one at JFK Airport and one on Long Island. “Fot future locations, we are looking at Buffalo, Utica, Binghamton, Watertown and other O’Connell said.
GM has applied for federal stimulus money to help developp andtest fuel-cell technology, O’Connell was awarded $2.4 million as part of nearl $42 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act fundintg for 13 fuel-cell projects nationwide, it was reported on