"Our question is how quickly the hydrogen infrastructure can develop".
We don't have a hydrogen infrastructure like we have a petroleum infrastructure".
The hydrogen infrastructure does not need to be rolled out just like the current gasoline infrastructure".
Such voices point to studies suggesting that building a hydrogen infrastructure could cost $100 billion or more in America alone.
Germany recently committed to sorting out a hydrogen infrastructure, but really the world is much further along the path towards the infrastructure for electric vehicles than for hydrogen.
And despite the publicity given to fuel-cell cars, practical versions remain a dream, given the challenges of creating a hydrogen infrastructure.
The absence of a cost estimate for the proposed hydrogen infrastructure was a striking example of the oversimplifications we believe were made.
One camp thinks that hydrogen infrastructure will be far too costly to build for decades to come, and so wants to use some interim fuel during the transition.
BMW does agree with the chicken-and-egg argument of fuel-cell proponents: if energy companies or the government won't jump-start the hydrogen infrastructure, the cars must come first.
But that was part of the plan, according to Ms. Markey and Mr. Massa, who say that the trip was also supposed to emphasize the need for more hydrogen infrastructure.
Honda is realistic about the slow growth of a hydrogen infrastructure as well as the viewpoint that fuel cells may not seem to make much sense using current methods of hydrogen production.
