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87 A future energy system based on renewable energy sources and the fuel cell car as an intermediate conversion technology for electric driving, energy storage as well as electricity production, promises many economic, environmental and social advantages. But there are huge challenges too. It will require many innovations: technological, organizational, social, institutional, legal and regulatory. Luckily, we can count on innovations driven by the introduction of fuel cell cars themselves, and other energy- and transport trends. For example autonomous driving is on its way. It will make ‘automated parking and automated guidance to the nearest parking spot’ (33) possible, as one of the first applications. Plug-in and electric vehicles with batteries as a power source nowadays deploy vehicle-to-grid options also. And the cost and efficiency of hydrogen production and -storage is progressing independently of the Car as Power Plant concept. But quite some challenges remain to be solved. THE CHALLENGES