Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens Hydrogen Education Challenge, Day 30 of 50

Neither Al Gore nor T. Boone Pickens mentioned hydrogen cars in their plans to address America’s energy crisis.

Therefore, I issued the Hydrogen Education Challenge to Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens, so they can learn more about hydrogen cars.  I am posting one hydrogen fact for them to read each weekday over ten weeks between August 4th and October 10th on the Hydrogen Discoveries blog.

Once Al Gore and T. Boone Pickens have met the Hydrogen Education Challenge, I am extremely confident that they will both become vocal advocates of hydrogen cars and support the Hydrogen Manhattan Project goal of having:

“Every car on the road in the U.S. powered by hydrogen produced from clean sources of energy by the end of 2020.”

Here is the hydrogen fact for day 30:

(Note: The seven items from day 26 to day 32 cover plug-in battery technology which is a competitor of hydrogen fuel cells.)

Jaycie Chitwood, Senior Strategic Planner for Advanced Technologies at Toyota, said that the company expects that the battery driving range for plug-in hybrid cars is only expected to improve to around 10-20 miles when lithium-ion batteries are used in the future.