Car firms plan affordable zero-emission fuel cell cars in 2017

Ford, Renault-Nissan and Daimler have agreed to jointly develop a fuel cell system in a bid to bring forward mass-market zero-emission vehicles.

The three car manufacturers claimed that their collaboration would lead to the launch of “the world’s first affordable, mass-market fuel cell electric vehicles as early as 2017”.

The idea is that the partners will develop a common fuel cell system that each company can use in their individual fuel cell electric vehicles....