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Wed May 28, 2014, 06:46 PM May 2014

Toyota wants you to meet an 'obsessed' hydrogen fuel cell engineer

Danny King May 8th 2014 green.autoblog.com



Like a television-broadcasting company covering the Olympics, Toyota is looking to market its future in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle production by taking the personal approach. In this case, the Japanese automaker is telling the backstory of Jackie Birdsall, an engineer at Toyota Technical Center who Toyota says is "obsessed" with fuel-cell technology

Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution

And now, as an engineer at Toyota Technical Center, Birdsall is "obsessed" with bringing fuel cell technology to the masses. But perhaps you need to be obsessed when you're trying to change the world. After all, revolutions don't blossom from complacency...

"So I can work on a car that has zero emission, that uses fuel you can make from any domestic resource, fills up in a matter of minutes and can completely replace the internal combustion vehicle?" She says. "I became obsessed."

There's that word.

"Right now, I have the best job in the world for me," she says. "I'm going to lose my mind when the first vehicle rolls off the production line. To be talking about a full commercial launch, that's pretty much the biggest victory I can have in my life."...

Full article: http://green.autoblog.com/2014/05/08/toyota-wants-you-to-meet-obsessed-hydrogen-fuel-cell-engineer/

Perhaps many people here know more about Hydrogen and cars than this top Toyota fuel cell engineer does. I doubt it though.


(PDF) http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/pdfs/10001_well_to_wheels_gge_petroleum_use.pdf


Batteries or Fuel Cells? http://cleancaroptions.com/html/batteries_or_fuel_cells-.html



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