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Fuel-Cell Industry Lobbies to Reinstate U.S. Incentives
Carmakers, fuel-cell makers and hydrogen providers are pushing the U.S.
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Carmakers, fuel-cell makers and hydrogen providers are pushing the U.S. Congress to reinstate sales incentives worth $8,000 per fuel-cell vehicle, Edmunds.com reports. The previous credits expired at the end of December.
So far Honda, Hyundai and Toyota are promoting their fuel-cell vehicles as if the discount still applied, Edmunds.com says. Hyundai's Tucson FCEV SUV is available now. Toyota intends to debut its Mirai fuel-cell sedan in the U.S. later this year. Honda expects to introduce its hydrogen-fueled sedan in early 2016.
Battery-powered cars and plug-in vehicles currently qualify for federal tax credits of $7,500 and $2,500-$7,500, respectively. Those discounts apply to each manufacturer until it sells 200,000 qualifying vehicles. The incentives for fuel-cell vehicles, which were part of a separate funding bill, had no sales cap.
Proponents of a new round of discounts for fuel-cell cars want Congress to standardize the rules and amounts of incentives across all three types of alternate-power vehicles.
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