Auto Makers Must Bridge a 15-Year Gap before Hydrogen Power Arrives

Partial relief from soaring gasoline prices and America’s growing dependence on oil imports can be as close as your garage wall electrical outlet, according to one speaker at last week’s Energy Independence 2020 Summit held in Chicago.

The summit, hosted by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) at the Chicago Center for Green Technology, featured a variety of Illinois-based energy experts. Offering strategies and technologies to help the U.S. achieve energy independence by 2020, presenters told of new ways to cleanly and safely tap Illinois’ vast coal reserves, expand geothermal and wind power in the state and consider use of a new type of low-cost battery to power “plug-in” hybrid electric vehicles.

The Auto Channel