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Toyota releasing 5'600 fuel cell patents

Impetus · 2015-01-14 13:24:07

The small print is "until 2020". It will take that long to get a substantial number of fuel-cell vehicles on the road - including rolling out H2 "gas pumps". The population of fuelling stations would probably increase the availability of H2 supplies along the autobahn/route/strada/pista/M'way networkw, as a result of…

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14-01-2015 2:24pm

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The small print is "until 2020". It will take that long to get a substantial number of fuel-cell vehicles on the road - including rolling out H2 "gas pumps". The population of fuelling stations would probably increase the availability of H2 supplies along the autobahn/route/strada/pista/M'way networkw, as a result of proliferation of brands selling H2.

Any manufacturer depending on any of these patents would then be faced with a monopoly owner of the technology and who knows what fees. A few version of Freemium.

http://www.rubbernews.com/article/20150112/NEWS/150109965/toyota-wont-enforce-more-than-5600-fuel-cell-patents

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#2 14-01-2015 4:31pm
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hydrogen fool cells are a joke

I doubt we will ever see them on the roads in large numbers

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