Toyota said recently that it plans to offer a hydrogen fuel cell car for a price of around $50,000.  Toyota’s claim is that it figured out a way of cutting the cost of hydrogen fuel-cell cars by 90 percent, bringing the future cost of fuel cell cars crashing down into a tier where many Americans will be able to afford them. To deliver that cost savings, Toyota has cut out some of the platinum involved in the fuel cell manufacturing.

Toyota’s first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle will be a sedan that is expected to launch in 2015.

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