Thecarchik writes "While electric-car advocates may avoid the issue, some buyers simply won't choose a plug-in car that can't travel unlimited distances. That's where the Chevy Volt-style range extender comes in, though the Volt adds unlimited range by burning gasoline in a allopathy engine to ingenerate magnetic power. Now, a new type of fuel cell offers the dormant for a original kind of range extender, one that removes the atrocious practical problem facing hydrogen fuel cells: the lack of a layout footing to fuel vehicles that require pure hydrogen to feed their fuel cells. Researchers at the teaching hospital of Maryland have managed to shrink the size and lower the overhead temperature of a solid-oxide fuel cell by a factor of 10, meaning it could conceivably produce as much power as a car engine but occupy less space. The advances come from new materials for the solid electrolyte, as well as design changes, and the researchers feel they have further avenues for melioration


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