Honda makes first hydrogen cars

[ND4SPD]

BBC NEWS | Business | Honda makes first hydrogen cars

[Tygerr]

Awesome.

The problem of hydrogen being expensive to make may also be solved soon by Purdue U using an alloy.

[ND4SPD]

I'm just glad companies are looking into this sort of thing and actually going forward with it. I personally never understood the whole appeal of hybrids, it just seemed like a trendy "look at me! I'm halping teh environment!" kind of thing... you were STILL buying gas, the same as everyone else! To me, that wasn't solving anything.

[FastCougar]

Originally Posted by ND4SPD

I'm just glad companies are looking into this sort of thing and actually going forward with it. I personally never understood the whole appeal of hybrids, it just seemed like a trendy "look at me! I'm halping teh environment!" kind of thing... you were STILL buying gas, the same as everyone else! To me, that wasn't solving anything.

Good point ... everyone should just buy Suburbans and commute to work by themselves

[ND4SPD]

says the man with the monster 3L turbo cougar... hows the fuel economy on that now?

It was more my point that a hybrid seems like temporary solution... If you found yourself in a showroom looking for a new car, and to your left there were hydrogen cars or some 80% efficient solar powered thing which required no gasoline, and to your right were hybrid/gas ones that did - would you still buy the one that had you filling up at $4~/gal every so often?

[Tygerr]

You're right. Hybrids are a step in the right direction, but the internal combustion motor is rather out dated. It's like putting a band aid on a bullet wound. It's nice to see new more efficent alternatives being formed.

[ND4SPD]

and maybe things like this start to popup: Honda's way around the problem of fueling its hydrogen cars—do it at home - Home Hydrogen Fueling Station: "Running on a home's existing natural gas supply, the Home Energy Station IV produces and stores hydrogen, while providing heat, hot water and electricity to an average-size home."

[RodneyBur]

I think its a step in the wrong direction and are just doing this for PR. I mean come on they are only planning on making 200 over the next three years. Where does that leave the rest of us 250 million +drivers?

Personally I would like to see a car company come back out with some natural gas vehicles. You can fill it up at home everyday and gas is really cheap. This could be used as a bridge to set up new stations and new technology to implement hydrogen service station in the future.

[ND4SPD]

I thought I read somewhere that a few other manufacturers have been deleloping the whole hydrogen idea? Wasn't GM one of them? As far as I know though, Honda is the first one to actually put them (even if its just 200) on the road. Am I wrong about that? ...I could be, but I'm preeeetty sure I would have noticed it in the news.

[MOMO]

yep, they are the first. GM version should roll out in 2010.
Then Ford will follow up with a cheap dependable, explosion proof hydrogen car... in 2013.