[Willie Green]

Volume fuel cell cars at least 25 years away, Toyota says

Another reason why, to reduce our dependency on OPECker oil, we should be building high-speed rail and Maglev: the technology is available NOW!!!

[Teacher317]

we should be building high-speed rail and Maglev: the technology is available NOW!!!

ROFLMBO!!!!

[narby]

In the question of how fast we could produce quantities of fuel cell cars vs maglev trains, I'd bet on the fuel cell cars. We have the technology for both today, but the infrastructure of trains and moving everyone to mass transit is a far heavier burden.

The difference is between building a new type of car vs. redesigning litterally entire cities and economic systems.

Get a grip Willie.

As for the 25 year thing, I don't buy that either. We started working on flying people in space sometime around 1959, and by 1965 we had fuel cell powered spacecraft. 6 years. In 10 years, we'd flown to the moon. Why the 25 year thing, I have no idea except they no doubt want to skim off as much government development money for as long as possible.

[Ditto]

Just how much stock do you own in Maglev Willie? ;~))