I suspect that we will be hearing a lot more about
hydrogen cars too; the fossil fuel companies might well fund a fake «hydrogen economy» because the cheapest hydrogen is made by steam reforming of natural gas; people think that this is somehow better than just running a car on CNG.
Not exact matches
Many skyscrapers — and even homes — have such fuel cells today, but the prototype
cars on the road — ranging from GM's fuel cell Chevy Equinox to BMW's
hydrogen - burning 7 Series sedan — have proved
too expensive so far to fulfill the Bush administration's dreams of a
hydrogen car economy.
Electric and
hydrogen is the future this
car is old tech and Alfa are 10 years
too late even for ICE RWD technology BMW did it in the 80's when Alfa were building FWD crapola.
Billed as rolling laboratory for the sort of driveline technology Mercedes expects to include on its luxury
cars in the not -
too - distant future, the big
hydrogen - powered
car gets an advanced fuel cell that, in theory, is capable of providing it with the performance to beat even the most powerful of today's S - class coupe models, the S600, while endowing it with zero - emission performance.
Hydrogen car is good,
too.
In July 2011, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, Daniel Akerson, stated that while the cost of
hydrogen fuel cell
cars is decreasing: «The
car is still
too expensive and probably won't be practical until the 2020 - plus period, I don't know.»
As far as
hydrogen fuel cells versus electric
cars or wind - powered land sailers, you can make arguments on all sides of the alternative fuel debate until you're blue in the face from
too much CO2.