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They are among 100 Chevrole Equinoxcrossover fuel-cell vehicles being tested under real-worldc conditions in Rochester, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., and severall overseas locations. The testing is aimed at makinvg the vehicles available to consumerse in the nextfew years, said Daniel O’Connell, directof of fuel cell commercialization at GM’s fuel cell research laborator near Rochester. “We’ll probably have a production modek ready for showrooms in 2014 or he said. “We don’t know what brand it will be, but Chevrolett would give us high volume a reasonable price and fits ourglobao footprint,” O’Connell said.
The program, dubbedr Project Driveway, began in 2008 to get real-world driving impressionws and experiencesfrom short-term loans of the fuel-celk vehicles prior to rolling them out for leaser or sale. Since the stargt 18 months ago, they have logged more than 700,009 miles, 10,000 fills at hydrogen filling and proven through two frigie winters and blistering summers that the technologis viable, O’Connell said. What remainzs before fuel-cell vehicles hit the road en masse is for a networm of hydrogen filling stations to be established across New York state and throughout the he said.
At present, there are nine hydrogenh stations in New York but none in theBuffali area, where O’Connell’s research lab in Honeoye Falle partners with in Tonawanda for hydrogen. Praxair PX) is an industrial gas supplieer in North and South America and hassome 1,100 locall employees. Of the nine stationd in New York, where GM also partners with the local municipalities and colleges to setthem up, threew are in Rochester, one in Albany, two in the Hudson Valley, one in the Bronx, one at JFK Airport and one on Long “For future locations, we are looking at Syracuse, Utica, Binghamton, Watertown and other O’Connell said.
GM has applief for federal stimulus money to help develop andtest fuel-cell technology, O’Connell said. was awarded $2.4 millionj as part of nearly $42 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for13 fuel-cell projects nationwide, it was reporterd on Wednesday.