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Article: Opportunity knocks for fuel cell transportation: fuel cells are being developed as power sources for everything from laptop computers to backup power supplies for hospitals, but it is the automotive sector that offers the greatest potential in the longer term. Component suppliers can hitch a ride on this new technology.(automotive)
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- Metalworking Production
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- October 1, 2003
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THE headline-grabbing power cuts in the US and London have focused even more attention on alternative energy sources. Fuel cells can supply power independently of the increasingly unreliable grid; but the bigger long-term opportunity is in the automotive sector, where fuel cell powered cars, buses, scooters etc. are expected to replace conventional vehicles in the coming decades. All the major carmakers are spending very large sums to develop fuel cell technologies for vehicles.
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