Description:
The Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published this study in February 2003. Drawing comparisons between hydrogen fuel cells and other vehicle power sources, the study attempts to predict if fuel cell vehicles will have lower greenhouse gas emissions and power consumption by 2020. Even with more liberal estimates for fuel cell technology advances over the next two decades, the report comes to the same conclusion as previous work done by the group, namely that fuel cells will probably not be better than hybrid electric internal combustion engines.