GM, Toyota end hybrid partnership

Check from GM bounced?

GM would have have taken the design, figured out a way to make it cheaper, and it would have broken in 5000 miles requiring a massive recall.

I believe that collaboration was for fuel cells, not hybrid technology.

That too would be a hybrid as would gasoline & electric (battery).

Fuel cell technology is completely different from hybrid technology.

A hybrid vehicle combines two different means of providing motive power. An gas/electric hybrid uses a gasoline powered internal combustion engine and an electric motor; a gas/hydraulic hybrid uses an internal combustion engine and hydraulic power.

A hydrogen fuel cell converts hydrogen to electricity without combustion, and a fuel cell vehicle does not have an internal combustion engine.

Pause here for me to stand corrected and make my crow on rye sandwich.

I do it all the time and have become used to the taste of crow sandwiches ;-)

While you fellows are chowing down on yummy crow sarnies, may one be a tad pedantic and suggest that, in fact, what happens inside the fuel cell _is_ internal combustion of a specialised kind? I speak of "combustion" in the way chemists do (AIUI): combination of atoms, with particular exchanges of electrons yadda yadda... Nett result is a surplus of electrons at one electrode, which is used to drive an electric current, which then does Useful Stuff. ;-)

I doubt engineers think of internal combustion in that way.

Since I am not a chemist, I'll just have to take your word on the internal combustion thing. That said, a fuel cell-powered powerplant is still not hybrid ;-)