Germany Floats New Plans to Keep Hydrogen-Powered Cars in the World's Transportation Mix: Scientific American

Germany Floats New Plans to Keep Hydrogen-Powered Cars in the World's Transportation Mix: Scientific American: "Hydrogen cars, in particular, have had a bumpy road thus far—the Obama administration has been at odds with Congress over whether to fund hydrogen fuel-cell research. Meanwhile, the first commercial models are not expected to hit the road until 2015, a few years after their hybrid and all-electric counterparts."

Applied electric field can significantly improve hydrogen storage properties

Applied electric field can significantly improve hydrogen storage properties: "'Using an external electric field as another variable in our search for such a material will bring a hydrogen economy closer to reality. This is a paradigm shift in the approach to store hydrogen. Thus far, the efforts have been on how to modify the composition of the storage material. Here we show that an applied electric field can do the same thing as doped metal ions ,' said Puru Jena, Ph.D. , distinguished professor in the VCU Department of Physics."