Mail to be Delivered with Hydrogen
Hydrogen is still a young technology for use in cars with fuel cell engines. The U.S. Postal Service and GM are teaming up to begin delivering mail in hydrogen powered fuel-cell vehicles. Before you get too excited like I did, they are only going to be providing these vehicles to two USPS locations, one in Irvine California and the other that will be announced shortly. The car they will be using is a Chevrolet Equinox that has been tested over the last several years by the USPS in several locations. GM needed to test these vehicles in real driving situations to perfect the model that will be used.
Photo by Mike Babcock.
Chevy already has a program out called Project Driveway where they are testing 100 hydrogen powered fuel-cell vehicles in several locations throughout the country and the world. Living in the DC area, I previously heard about a few people testing hydrogen vehicles. A gas station in downtown DC recently built the only hydrogen pump in the area at their gas station. The postal workers in California will be using hydrogen located at the University of California, Irvine.
Hopefully this plan is a success and hydrogen pumps become a standard in gas stations throughout the country. It will be a difficult hurdle to overcome in that it will cost nearly $1/2 trillion in order to setup an entire infrastructure for hydrogen throughout America.
