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When will the first hydrogen vehicle go on the mass production?

it's probably 5-10 years awaythe technology is here, but it's expensive, and there's no infrastructure to support it

awhile, but sooner or later it is bound to happen.

Never, the oil and gasoline buiseness makes to much money so the gas companies will force the car companies to use their fuel instead on hydrogen.

As I understood the issue ther are several problems. The first is that there is no infrastructure for distribution of hydrogen. While gas stations could be converted there really is no incentive to. Another issue is that it currently takes more energy to extract hydrogen from water than can be effectivly used to move a car. There needs to be a more efficient way of extracting the hydrogen before it will be widely accepted. As it is right now gas companies don't need to research new technologies and push current ones. When the time comes that gas is too expensive to support it's own cost they will finally move on.People seem to have this idealized notion about fuel cell cars. There are still quite a few bugs to be worked out. There really is no amazing next generation of fuel out there, they all have pros and cons.

You will not see a factory produced Hydrogen powered vehicle for many years to come,,,or at least until they solve the storage problems with hydrogen,,,plus,,,there are no incentives for the big car companys or oil companys to help push such a Green car to production.

Honda is mum on how many FCXs it plans to build, but current market demand — virtually zero — would seem to indicate that the numbers would be extremely low.