Honda and General Motors partners to setup a fuel cell factory

The association between the Japanese car major Honda Motor and the American auto giant General Motors is already known in the global car market. Honda and General Motors (GM) have joined hands to develop the hydrogen Fuel Cell technology in a more advanced way, which will be used by both Honda and GM’s future cars. Now, according to reports, the two global auto majors are working together to establish a factory which will be producing hydrogen fuel cells.
A latest report claims that Honda Motor and General Motors are considering a joint venture in order to setup a facility to make future generation fuel cells that will go into the making of the future cars from the stable of both these two car majors.

According to the sources, Honda and GM are planning to get this plant up and running latest by the year 2025. However, the reports or the sources do not indicate as to where this new joint venture fuel cell factory will be located.

At present, Honda and GM are jointly working on the advancement of the Fuel Cell technology and the production of the fuel cells that involve taking hydrogen stored in its highly pressurized form and then combining it with the naturally found oxygen drawing from the air in order to generate the necessary energy to drive the car. Apart from electricity, the fuel cell vehicles also produce pure water vapor that gets emitted from the vehicles in the form of exhaust. Thus, the fuel cell vehicles are the ultimate green cars, which are also likely to be used as the source offering pure drinking water and emergency power, in the future.

It is good to mention at this point of time that although Honda and GM are jointly producing the next-generation fuel cell technology, the two car makers will be individually engineering their own respective cars that will go on sale in their individual brand names. These new cars however, will make use of the same fuel cell technology from the joint venture.

The global car markets are slowly making solid ground for the success of the still very expensive fuel cell vehicles apart from the nascent fuel cell infrastructure. It is said that the Japanese government is considering introducing incentives on the fuel cell vehicles which will make them carry competitive pricing that is at par with the hybrid vehicles by the year 2025.

Due to the immense research and development costs of the fuel cell technology, several auto giants in the world have formed to help cut down expenses, fast track the development and to utilize resources better among themselves.
While Honda and GM have joined hands for fuel cell technology development and hydrogen storage in cars back in the year 2013, Toyota and BMW have formed alliance to work on hydrogen fuel cell technology and to develop a sports car platform. Daimler, Ford and Nissan have also tied-up for advanced fuel cell development.