I'll keep my fingers crossed. Less than $100/kwh would be a world changer.

The case against the hydrogen car strategy, as posed in competition with the BEV, has been well staked out for several years now, based on the fact that you need several scientific breakthroughs before the hydrogen fuel cell can become practical. Since then, one by one we are seeing these obstacles addressed in announcements, and a vision starts to form of the H2FC car coming this side of the horizon.

Don't be fooled. There is a critical difference. The hydrogen strategy requires this whole serial string of breakthroughs not only to be made scientifically feasible, but also brought to market along with a series of large investments in infrastructure and product engineering. Opponents allied with oil have only to create a snag at one point, such as burying a key patent, and they achieve their goal of delaying our relief for many years while they empty out our treasuries. Profits become extreme when we have no good alternative because we directed our plans at something they were not going to allow to be. This is what the pied pipers of hydrogen are luring you to do.

The BEV was subject to that for several years, but only because USABC channeled all of the public funding (which displaced other funding) for automotive traction batteries into a single technology. Today there are many battery chemistries well along, and only one of them has to be developed into something great to give us the great (PH)EV. You cannot stop all of them without being so obvious and blatant so as to provoke the same level of reaction as to Standard Oil in 1911. That's why automakers are now getting serious about electric drive.

I think the fuel cell research should continue, especially for stationary applications and aircraft. But I wouldn't give the time of day to someone who wants to impress you with a fuel cell car except as a long-term project to be useful as a follow-on someday to the immediate-priority PHEV, replacing its internal combustion engine and its biofuel. Once most transportation can readily be shifted away from oil, there will not be enough money at stake anymore to stop the fuel cell from then getting cut loose.

"...more efficient than chemical reactions..."

I thought batteries WERE chemical reactions, so I do not see the point.

This seems like a pretty significant announcement. We can make carbon nanometer structures, but we can not make platinum. If this is true, it could change a LOT of things.

The claim that Nisshinbo invented a platinum-free fuel cell technology is a PURE SCAM. Nisshinbo itself never released such a news release or made the announcement. All internet report on this SCAM news originated from a news story that first appeared on NIKKEI News, which never identified its information source. Use some common sense, if this is a true break through, the Nisshinbo itself will make a lot of noise, instead of "leaking" the story to NIKKEI, a financial media, not a technology media.

Read about it here:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/85259-the-best-safe-haven-investments-and-some-potential-threats