Mid-July, 2006, Ford Motor Company became the first automaker to begin production of a commercially viable hydrogen engine, which emits almost nothing but clean water vapour into the air.
The hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines are destined for shuttle buses and will be ready for delivery later this year, said Ford Motor spokesman Nick Twork.
Because the hydrogen internal combustion engines -- as opposed to the expensive hydrogen fuel-cell engines -- use mostly conventional parts, they could eventually be produced at around the same cost as gasoline-powered engines, Twork said. He said the main barrier to widespread adoption is creating an infrastructure of hydrogen filling stations.
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