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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yep, just subscribed. Good article BTW. 👍
