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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Hydrogen Car


Courtesy BBC web-site...

Originally Posted by Peverel

I think these cars are definately going to be the way to go. All the cleanliness of an electric car with the convenience of refilling like a petrol car (well kind of - no 8 hour charge cycles etc)

Honda have one they are already leasing in Japan and the US but in very small volumes

Be careful with this one. It is an Electric Vehicle with motors on each wheels that are fed electricity by a fuel cell. That fuel cell is fed hydrogen. Fuel cells are far away from being affordable so far. The principle of a fuel cell is the direct opposite of making hydrogen, in which if you put two electrodes in simple water, oxygen gas will go to one pole and hydrogen to the other pole.

BMW has a real hydrogen conventional type combustion engine.

There are storage drawbacks to hydrogen. The atom is the smallest so it permeates through any containment material. The best container will leak 3% a day. The ideal solution would be to have a hydrogen micro-plant at your home, produce the gas during the night and fill your car tank in the morning. If you need some more during the day you could fill in at some filling station. The goal of car makers and their owners (petrol manufacturers) is to support the fuel manufacturing and distribution infrastructures. This is why they are finding ways around EVs with different fuels such as hydrogen, biodiesels, hybrids, gas and whatever. They are totally against EVs and give you whatever reasons against them. There I go again!

If I had land enough, I'd get the air car and do part of the tank filling with wind generated compressors.