They will come. I just read that Cellex, a company that is making fuel cell packages, and Crown are starting field trials at Wal-Mart in January. There are great benefits in productivity to be made using fuel cells in fork lifts. The cost for pauses made when changing batteries, storage of batteries and people handling them isn´t exactly low..

Hi dougster,
Let me amend my remark of yesterday.
you are corresct. Hydrogen fuel cell will supercede all the existing fossil fuel powered prime movers.
Sorry and Thanks

Hi dougster,
My view is different.　Fossil fuel powered forklifts may be superseded by hydrogen powered in small/medium capacity. As long as reciprocal IC engine is used, vibration and noise levels are inferior to those generated by electric forklifts. Ultimate power source is the fuel cell. How and when we reach to this goal is quite dependent to developments mostly in the automobile industries where volume can press down the cost increase force. Hydrogen or any hybrid system is a mere transition alternative to the existing prime movers. How would you say?