GM’s Outgoing R&D Chief Says Company’s H2 Program Needs More Federal Aid

General Motors, a leader in development of hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, may have to curtail its cutting-edge work unless it gets another $50 million to $70 million from the government, GM's outgoing research chief warns. GM just emerged from a painful bankruptcy restructuring in which it cut 1,100 dealers; shed Pontiac, Hummer and Saturn; and lost thousands more jobs. Yet, through it all, GM maintained its hydrogen research program pretty much intact, even though fuel-cell vehicles are still years away from going on sale. “The program has not slowed down at all,” Larry Burns ( pictured ), GM's retiring vice…

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GM’s Outgoing R&D Chief Says Company’s H2 Program Needs More Federal Aid

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