Ford, Daimler, and Nissan Plan for Hydrogen Car

[Crispy]

Thought I'd share this one up.

Article.

This is great news! 👍

 

[a6m5]

I know nothing about hydrogen powered cars, but this sounds exciting. It's sort of funny, because the manufacturers in the thread titles are actually running couple years behind Toyota, Honda & Hyundai/Kia according to the story.

 

[Slash]

This outta be interesting.

 

[sumbrownkid]

I'm just waiting for the day where a car can run on hopes and dreams.

 

[RDF97]

Hope it all works out because it is the possible future of motoring!

 

[Azuremen]

Thank goodness they aren't being silly and trying to build a hydrogen combustion engine. Very curious to see where they end up with this in a few years, as electric cars are the future.

 

[Nessy]

Kind of on topic, i thought i'd just share this:
http://www.paultan.org/2013/02/19/psa-to-debut-revolutionairy-hybrid-tech-in-geneva/

 

[homeforsummer]

I'm quite intrigued by the hybrid-air thing. For the short-range stuff that batteries in hybrids normally handle, it seems like a pleasingly light and simple alternative.

You need another source for your green car news, though

 

[Nessy]

You need another source for your green car news, though

Yep, just subscribed. Good article BTW. 👍

[EDIT]

Actually, i wonder whether they could find some way of hooking up the compressed air cylinder, so it activates a jack system, (like some race cars have)... on second thoughts, that would probably be too complicated, expensive and unnecessary.

 

[homeforsummer]

Actually, i wonder whether they could find some way of hooking up the compressed air cylinder, so it activates a jack system, (like some race cars have)... on second thoughts, that would probably be too complicated, expensive and unnecessary.

You rather answered your own question there

I'd just like to see how it works in practice. In theory, it's actually quite a cool idea. It could never work on a larger scale due to the law of diminishing returns with stuff like that (by extension of the physical laws of thermodynamics) but on a small scale, and in a lightweight car, it'd actually be interesting.

I could imagine it being perfect in a city car like the Peugeot 107/Citroen C1, which are too deliberately cheap for an expensive battery one to make sense.

 

[Nessy]

You rather answered your own question there

I know, i do have a tendency to shoot down my own (thinking aloud) comments.

If the technology takes off, hopefully they'll build even lighter cars to take advantage of it.