GM Sees Home Hydrogen Refuelling Stations

General Motors is developing a home refueling station for hydrogen cars, which it believes can circumvent the problem of building out a nationwide fueling infrastructure.

GM’s refueling unit is in the prototype stage – the company plans to make it commercially available in 2011 along with the release of its first hydrogen fueled cars.

The refueling units will use electricity or sunlight to create hydrogen.

Next year, 100 hydrogen fuel-cell versions of its Chevrolet Equinox SUV will be given to government employees in New York, California and Washington DC, in a market test of the technology named Project Driveway.