The First Fuel Cell Powered Vehicles

• United States: The first vehicle to be powered by a fuel cell was an Allis-Chalmers tractor in 1959.
  
  
• The 15kw alkali fuel cell used compressed hydrogen and oxygen as the reactants and potassium hydroxides as the electrolyte.
  
  
• In 1962 Allis-Chalmers produced a golf-cart powered by a 4kW alkaline fuel cell.