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"During a joint conference call from New York, General Motors and Honda announced a master agreement to collaborate on next-generation fuel-cell and hydrogen-storage technologies for introduction by 2020. The two companies will also work with other stakeholders, including governments and energy companies, to advance refueling infrastructure. GM vice chairman Steven Girsky joined Honda executive vice president Tetsuo Iwamura on the call and committed to &amp;quot;complete sharing&amp;quot; of all intellectual property relating to hydrogen power. The two automakers have filed more than 1200 fuel cell-related patents over the past decade. While fuel-cell technology works, Girsky and Iwamura both acknowledged that costs have remained stubbornly high and refueling infrastructure remains sparse. The automakers hope that by combining their efforts to produce economies of scale in manufacturing and suppliers, they can drive down costs by the end of the decade. GM was the first company to build a fuel-cell vehicle in 1966, when it installed hydrogen-electric technology originally developed for the space program in a Corvair van dubbed the ElectroVan. Since the 1990s, Honda and GM have been among the leaders in developing and testing fuel-cell technology along with Daimler, Toyota, Ford, and Hyundai. Between 2007 and 2011, General Motors successfully accumulated more than three million miles on a fleet of more than 100 fuel cell-powered Equinoxes in the Project Driveway real-world beta test. Honda became the first automaker to meet U.S. Department of Transportation safety requirements with its previous generation FCX. In 2009, the FCX Clarity was launched as the first purpose-designed, &amp;quot;series-production&amp;quot; fuel-cell vehicle. A few dozen Claritys have been leased to select customers in Japan and the United States since then. Honda plans to introduce a higher volume successor to the Clarity for 2015, about the same time that Toyota has committed to launch its own production fuel-cell vehicle. The Toyota model is expected to be unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show this fall. The next-generation Honda will see an evolution from the technology in the current Clarity. GM did not say if it would introduce a new fuel-cell vehicle prior to 2020. At this time, there is no formal joint venture between Honda and GM, and the companies are not planning to build common vehicles. Only the fuel cell and storage technology will be shared for vehicles that arrive at the end of the decade. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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