Decades Of Promises: 'Dude, Where's My Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Car?' - Green Car Reports

In a series of quotes that pop up from the graphic embedded in his post, Lin highlights various predictions made by scientists, engineers, analysts, and executives for when fuel-cell cars would start to reach volume production and appear on the... The first estimate, made in 1980, suggests that the year would be 1990. The article attached to the most recent quote has the less optimistic headline, "Long road ahead predicted for fuel cell electric vehicles. As of the end of February, fewer than 100 Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell crossovers have been leased in the U. S. The 2016 Toyota Mirai will go on sale in limited regions of California later this year, and Honda is expected to launch a production... While a similar graphic could probably be created for electric cars, cars with plugs have been on sale in North America for almost four and a half years now. Today, there are roughly 20 different plug-in electric vehicles on sale in the U. S. Their total sales last year were roughly 118,500. Source: www.greencarreports.com