In particular the "Freedom Car" project will fund research into the handling of hydrogen and the creation of an infrastructure for dispensing hydrogen.
This will greatly improve the prospects of fuel cell vehicles, as the absence of an hydrogen infrastructure is currently a major hurdle in the way of their adoption. "The more certain we are about the infrastructure, the more aggressive we can be about the cars", comments Byron McCormick, director of fuel cell activities at General Motors. "The Government is a huge force in what we're talking about", he adds.