...a hydrogen fueling station nearby, so they can swap out the battery hybrid engine with the fuel cell model....because hydrogen fuel cells are the real future of automobiles.

One Engine.

One Fuel.

Hydrogen!

Surely the real problems for GM have more to do with their humongous financial obligations, such as retirees' health benefits.  It's true to say that current sales aren't keeping up with these liabilities (due in part to high gas prices making large vehicles less attractive), but this is the trajectory GM - and all the rest of Big Auto - have been heading for decades, long before the SUV trend took root.  SUVs provided a brief reprieve for a few years, thanks to their high margins, but the deeper problems wouldn't go away if gas prices suddenly dropped - it would just take a bit longer for the axe to finally fall.

There is no automobile of the future. The automobile is a symptom of cheap oil and steel. Once those are gone, there is no economic reason to still produce automobiles for the masses.