[porwolf]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Why go through all the trouble to develop a gasoline fuel cell when that is a non-renewable resource that is only going to get harder to extract and pricier to buy? Doesn't make business sense. You would need to use a renewable liquid fuel like methanol. Or hydrogen made from natural gas power, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, etc.

You are right it could also be Methanol, or Ethanol or LNG?. Hydrogen has huge storage problems and hydrogen car tanks that are not absorption tanks are another problem. A room temperature atmospheric pressure liquid is just easy and relatively safe to store. Gasoline would come in handy because you could use the already existing pipe line net for distribution and tanks for storage. And gas stations are plentiful. The transition from combustion to gasoline fuel cell would be a cinch and the effectiveness of energy transmission from chemical energy of liquids to electric energy to the wheels would be greatly improved..