I see no synergies at all. For hydrogen vehicles to have any merit they should source the hydrogen from non-fossils. Both oil and natural gas is going up in price so this sourcing will turn out to be hopeless soon enough. Using the natural gas instead in flex fuel CNG vehicles is many times simpler, less expensive and can be done immediately. Moreover, global natural gas production is only a fraction of global oil production in energy equivalents so natural gas can only be used as partial but important damage control in a peak oil scenario. What they do here is a complete waste of good money. They should spend it on hydrogen electrolysis development instead. That has some potential to do good.

H2 station based on reforming CNG is the stupidest thing I have ever heard to be proposed, of course it could only be proposed by GM. CNG is clean enough and can be burned very efficiently in an ICE, no need to transform it to H2 and burn it an expensive fuel cell, why make thing simple when they can be complicated ? ask GM, technology will save us especially if it doesn't make any sense.

It's good to do development about hydrogen fueling and fuel cell vehicles. Using hydrogen from reforming natural gas is ok for now, but not in the future. There are 5.5 pounds of CO2 produced for each pound of hydrogen by reforming and that CO2 is usually released into the atmosphere. In the near future the hydrogen should come from electrolyzing water using renewable energy like solar and wind. The www.windhunter.org is an offshore system that uses wind and seawater.

Hydrogen fuel cells will be very expensive for a long time. The production of hydrogen is also very expensive, and compressing it removes any energy advantage that a fuel cell migh have had. Fuel cell proposals for the future defeated ZEVs that were already on the market and are a convenient part truth for politicians to divert voters from real issues. The cost of fuel cell vehicles will prevent any large number from being built in the near future. A large percentage of series Plug-In-Hybrids will reduce fuel CO2 release and local pollution far quicker at far less cost. Any solar, wind or geothermal electricity that might go to producing hydrogen is used with at least twice the efficiency at far lower cost in plug in hybrid vehicles. With direct current transmission, power can be sent thousands of miles at far less loss than converting it to hydrogen and back again to electricity. ZEBRA batteries can freeze the electrical energy into themselves and keep it for many years until the battery is reheated to activate it; This is a cheaper way of storing electricity than hydrogen and fuel cells....HG...

GM bashing again, huh? There's a reason why they're doing reformed nat gas--it's the cheapest way to produce hydrogen, hence why it produces the majority of natural gas produced (at least in this country). That's the way it would presumably do in the forseeable future. Plus it's not like GM is the only company to hydrogen research, so the criticisim is completely unwarented.

GM is guilty as bashed in this area. If bashing does not work, there is always the possibility of boycott.

Is this the same hydogen that sells as clean and green
Because we all know that that type of Hydrogen is totally emmissions free.
(joke)

Do they give away stuff with a fill-up?
No doubt there's a line of people around the block waiting to fill-up.

"possibility of boycott."

I'm too busy boycotting grapes from Chile - but my weed smokin GM basher friends are available.