Nissan’s “Nissan Green Program 2010″ seeks out eco-friendly technologies to develop products and services that cut CO2 emissions, produce clean emissions and recycle resources. As part of this program Nissan has been developing technologies for Fuel Cell vehicles. As reported a while ago, Nissan’s XTrail Fuel Cell Vehicle set the world’s first speed record on the Nurburging track for a Fuel Cell Vehicle. It was slow, but it proved the point that Fuel Cell Vehicles can race around a track. With Nissan’s current success at having developed a fuel cell stack that doubles the power output compared to the previous generation, we may see a Fuel Cell Vehicle doing lap times closer to that achieved by the GT-R. Well maybe not in the near future, but one day at least. What’s also notable about this next generation Fuel Cell Stack is that it cuts down 35% of the cost of production. It does this by using less Platinum, an integral part of a Fuel Cell Stack. This is important as one of the drawbacks of alternative fuel vehicles is cost. Hybrids are still quite expensive and even more so are other technologies.
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