Subject category:
Production and Operations Management
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 4 August 2005
Length: 23 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract
Describes the history of General Motor's (GM) attempts to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car. As of 2003, GM developed several prototypes of such a vehicle to demonstrate the viability of the overall concept. Many uncertainties remained, however, with respect to the issues of cost, safe storage of hydrogen on a vehicle, and the lack of a hydrogen-refueling infrastructure. Aids students in developing a strategy for pushing this initiative forward, including tackling the question of how radical the new design should be and what to do about competitors who have aggressively pushed interim technology-hybrid vehicles - which GM has chosen not to emphasize in its product portfolio.
Location:
Industry:
Size:
USD186.7 billion revenues, 350,000 employees
Other setting(s):
2003
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Abstract
Describes the history of General Motor's (GM) attempts to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car. As of 2003, GM developed several prototypes of such a vehicle to demonstrate the viability of the overall concept. Many uncertainties remained, however, with respect to the issues of cost, safe storage of hydrogen on a vehicle, and the lack of a hydrogen-refueling infrastructure. Aids students in developing a strategy for pushing this initiative forward, including tackling the question of how radical the new design should be and what to do about competitors who have aggressively pushed interim technology-hybrid vehicles - which GM has chosen not to emphasize in its product portfolio.
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Location:
Industry:
Size:
USD186.7 billion revenues, 350,000 employees
Other setting(s):
2003