Prospecting the Future for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Markets

Potential markets for hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) are explored by examining the history and future of mobility and asking why people might purchase a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Based on history, it appears that modern societies will build systems that fully integrate automobility, electricity, and information, which will transform automobiles from their current role as primarily mobility tools. How FCVs might fit into a picture larger than just the automobile market is explored through a history of mobility. The three supporting infrastructures of modern societies, automobility, electricity, and information, will be integrated into the next such supporting infrastructure. Therefore, people will buy an FCV because automobiles will shift from primarily transport purposes to new lifestyle and work structures.

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  • http://www.uctc.net/papers/710.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Davis

  Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Davis, CA  United States  95616

  University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)

  University of California, Berkeley
  2614 Dwight Way, 2nd Floor
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1782
• Authors:
  • Kurani, Kenneth S
  • Turrentine, Thomas S
  • Heffner, Reid R
  • Congleton, Christopher David
• Publication Date: 2003-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 35p
• Serial:
  • University of California, Davis. Institute of Transportation Studies. Research report
  • Publisher: University of California, Davis

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Electricity; Forecasting; Fuel cell vehicles; Information technology; Infrastructure; Market assessment; Vehicle design
• Candidate Terms: Hydrogen fueled vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Automobility
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; I90: Vehicles;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01342627
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCD-ITS-RR-03-9, UCTC 710
• Files: BTRIS, UTC, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 2011 9:07AM