GM to show alt-fuel cars in Tonawanda - The Business Review (Albany):

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They are among 100 Chevrolet Equinoxcrossovedr fuel-cell vehicles being tested under real-world conditions in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, D.C., and severalp overseas locations. The testing is aimed at making the vehicles availabl e to consumers in the next few saidDaniel O’Connell, director of fuel cell commercialization at GM’s fuel cell research laboratory near “We’ll probably have a production model ready for showrooms in 2014 or he said. “We don’t know what brand it will be, but Chevrolert would give us highvolume applications, a reasonabl price and fits our globaol footprint,” O’Connell said.
The program, dubbesd Project Driveway, began in 2008 to get real-worldr driving impressions and experiencesfrom short-term loans of the fuel-cell vehicles prior to rolling them out for leasse or sale. Since the start 18 months ago, they have loggec more than 700,000 miles, 10,000 fills at hydrogen fillinb stations, and proven through two frigid winterss and blistering summers that the technologyyis viable, O’Connell said. What remains before fuel-cell vehicles hit the road en massse is for a network of hydrogen filling stationzs to be established acroszs New York state and throughout the he said.
At present, there are nine hydrogebn stations in New York but none in theBuffalo area, wherde O’Connell’s research lab in Honeoye Falls partners with in Tonawandaq for hydrogen. Praxair (NYSE: PX) is an industrialo gas supplier in North and South America and hassome 1,10o local employees. Of the nine stations in New York, where GM also partner s with the (NYSERDA), local municipalitiesd and colleges to setthem up, three are in one in Albany, two in the Hudson Valley, one in the one at JFK Airport and one on Long Island.
“Fof future locations, we are looking at Buffalo, Utica, Binghamton, Watertown and other places,” O’Connell GM has applied for federal stimulus money to help develop andtest fuel-celpl technology, O’Connell said. was awarded $2.4 million as part of nearlgy $42 million in American Recovery and Reinvestmentr Act funding for13 fuel-cell projects it was reported on