It is going to take 30 years to get a hydrogen car costing around $100k, by that time the world may be gone and so will oil, definately. Why didn’t we just keep funding research for technology we had 100 years ago? AKA electric cars?
Originally posted 2008-12-22 10:34:53.
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No it wont. We got technology to do it cheaper and more efficiently, American and other countries rely on foreign oils, and car companies are part of the conspiracy. They don’t want to make them, so they make it seem hard.
Hydrogen’s beauty is that when it burns it produces water vapor. Everyone likes water.
As to electric cars, what is going to produce the electricity? Oil ?
Nuclear? or perhaps, hydrogen?
Right now, electric cars are a viable option, and actually are doing much better technologically and practically than hydrogen-powered vehicles. Hydrogen cars, however, do remain alluring, both due to the fact that these vehicles create no greenhouse emissions whatsoever and, theoretically, can be powered by a cheap inexhaustible fuel. Producing hydrogen fuel is actually the single greatest practical and technological limitation on these cars today. If hydrogen can be cheaply produced, such cars could replace today’s fossil-fuel dependent vehicles quite easily, without giving up any of the performance or reliability which electric cars are perceived to lack.
Hydrogen cars will be a viable option in the future. The $100K hydrogen car should be available in the US in the next five or so years. Beyond that, who knows. Only further research and development will tell how quickly and cheaply such cars can be brought to market.