In order to stay on top of the auto industry, Hyundai reviews its future plans consistently and realistically. The newest announcement by the Korean automaker involves launching its fuel-cell technology in 2012.
If the automaker launches fuel-cell technology for its Hyundai cars near East Brunswick and across the nation in 2012, that will be just three years after the launch of the company’s first hybrid vehicle. The automaker is pumping more money into the research and development of the fuel-cell in order to ensure its readiness for the 2012 goal.
Fuel cells are not anything new, though. The concept has actually been around since the 1830s when a German scientist by the name of Christian Friedrich Schonbein published his discovery. Another scientist – Sir William Robert Grove – demonstrated fuel cells in an 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. For a later edition, he sketched the idea to give people a better idea of how it would work.
Over the last century and a half, other scientists and engineers have made great strides in making improvements to the idea and the technology. I wonder if they knew back in 1838 that this would be used in cars. Oh wait…they didn’t even know what cars were back in 1838!
