Summary - Hydrogen Cars Are Still Headed for the Highway

The article Hydrogen Cars Are Still Headed for the Highway states the belief that hydrogen fuel cells are the future of the automotive industry rather than the current "battery fad." On September 10, 2009, the German government announced plans to build 1,000 hydrogen filling stations in Germany by the year 2015. This occurred two days after prominent auto manufacturers lobbied energy companies to build networks of hydrogen filling stations around the world. For the time being, automotive companies will continue to invest in hydrogen technology due to the belief that batteries will never catch fuel cells in terms of technology. But according to Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, simply picking one technology over the other is extremely risky in this ever changing world.