@Casper7412 that might just be because the infrastructure for compressed hydrogen isn't as widespread as that for petrol. Once compressing hydrogen becomes more ubiquitous, the price of producing it will probably (hopefully) go down. Also, comparatively speaking, petrol is very cheap in the US, so it would already be a good deal here in Europe, but that's not to say that it shouldn't be cheaper.
@Casper7412 Nitrogen is the most abundant element in our atmosphere, which is the only reasonable place to get resources from. Therefore your argument is invalid.
@Casper7412 actually it's not abundancy that makes hydrogen pricing equal to petrol, but rather the required process for refining it in a compressed manner
instead of putting a hydrogen fuel cell, they should build it with a hydrogen generator... That way you don't need a hydrogen station... All you need is clean water :)
you can burn hydrogen in a normal engine rather than gas or using the hydrogen in a fuel cell, that could save all that matters to us enthusiasts, our cars in 10 years would be very similar except for what we put in the tank, but we won't notice it.
@burn2theground But the fuel that powers this isn't water. It's hydrogen. And hydrogen, by nature, is HIGHLY flammable.
I'm sure home production will be possible, but considering the tank stores it in a highly compressed form, pressurizing it will be as much an issue as generation (let's face it, any idiot can make hydrogen at home with tap water, a bit of wire, and a battery), and it's probably going to just be more convenient and cost effective to fuel up at a hydrogen station.
... so like.. They sell you this hybrid sh*t so more people in can use the fossil fuel just in greater amount of time? How are you selling the environment then ? Owners of the largest oil companies is just trying to postpone the inevitable and pay everyone to not use the hydrogen fuel... they are the true evil of this century.
@MrTkema Hydrogen fuel cells produce absolutely pure water, it's completely drinkable after the hydrogen is used to produce electricity in the fuel cell. Also, with new fuel cell technologies, hydrogen can be produced on site by converting water to oxygen and hydrogen inside the car before recombining it a few seconds later after using the hydrogen to produce electricity. It's not any more dangerous than gasoline.
@MrTkema What's your problem? The hydrogen car IS producing electric power... So it's also, an Electric car, even better than those that was powered with batteries. In other words, YOU'RE ALREADY INSULTING A CAR THAT YOU OBVIOUSLY THOUGHT IT RULES!!!! =____="
@MrTkema It's funny you say that again, because hydrogen car IS an electric car.
Look dude, i respect your opinion. Because i also do hope that electric cars will be used as the main transportation. And i agree with you at some part of it.
But if your thinking the electric car your talking is BATTERY cars, then your mad. In a few miles, it's just going to dropped out in the middle of a road, when you're not even on the way to home. AND, to recharge it, you have to wait in a HALF day. The Battery cars isn't ready yet... Like it or not, the solution is hydrogen cars..
@orihalchon I have in mind a battery that could make a tesla model s go 600+ miles on a charge.This is proven and is possible though the power of carbon nanotubes. Look up carbon nanotube battery on google. Also it would shane the weight from 3800 lbs down to only 3200 lbs. Mike E.
@orihalchon Yeah and Batterys charge from grid energy is stilll mostly fossil fuels and nuclear so an electric car that is charged with Pollution is just Inefficient'
@fishfrizbee Yes, that's right. Well i'm not actually disliking Battery cars though. Hydrogen cars, well at least, will be the temporary substitute 'till the Battery cars are ready... And i think they should've ready when eco-powerplants (Solar Powers, Fusion Reactors, etc) is very much replacing the CO2-producing powerplants ;)
@MrTkema dude if you ever read a history book you would see that the first cars were extremly expencive and only the very rich were able to afford them and that was roughly a hundred years ago so maby in another hundred years hydrogen cars might be as fast and have the same cost as normal cars today
@jawbraeka lol Let me correct that ;) Hybrid still is a car that uses both petrol & electric. So the Clarity can't be called as Hybrid (even if u call it a true hybrid lol), since it only has an hydrogen-use electric motor hehehe X3
@KrankesHirn I agree with you. The diference is that electric cars are already available and hydrogen cars are science fiction. Plus, hydrogen needs fossil fuels too.
@maravalhadas Hydrogen cars aren't science fiction. They've had working hydrogen cars for a while now. However,either through technology or lack of interest, we don't have the capability of making a consumer hydrogen car at this time. It's unlikely we'll see a switch to an alternate fuel until we get dangerously close or actually do run out of fossil fuels, where then we will be FORCED to start building hydrogen pumps, hydrogen cars, etc.
@dakoffran, they're the same price because hydrogen is still expensive to produce in large quantities. Plus, the technology just isn't here yet. Most of these are just test vehicles. But in the future, it won't cost you nearly as much to fill up.
i think its funny how they decide to use hydrogen to be ablt to meter it and charge you for it, instead of building it with its own on board machine that can create the hydrogen to power it.
@maravalhadas Technically Hydrogen cars are electric cars. The difference is that they generate electricity at the time, while electric cars take electricity from another sources and store it in batteries. Note that a big chunk of the electricity is still produced by burning fossil fuels.
How do we know if this thing leaks into the air? What if detection devices fail. A Billion Metric tons leaking into the Atmosphere does not sound very appealing for the future. We want to eliminate all potential problems as possible.
@edgarassimanauskas95 but using oil to make tires doesnt use nearly as much oil as the world uses to just power their cars. and think of this, when the earth does run out of oil, i highly doubt itll take too long for an alternative to be found for making tires
@ResiusOnline I'd prefer individuals to have the power to produce the hydrogen cheaply at home or the hydrogen gets produced onboard the vehicle... but as I said... it's all about concentrating power into the hands of the few.
I agree that supercars would be in no danger - as Jay Leno said, they would stay exactly where they are: the weekend car. Nobody uses supercars to go grocery shopping or to go to work, they use it purely for fun -- and because normal practical cars would now all be using hydrogen, supercars would remain in the same state they are now - just for fun.
Everything's fine except the cost of the hydrogen... conveniently set to the same price as gas... I'm sure there are technologies where people can generate their own hydrogen at home for a lot cheaper... but then the bastards wouldn't be able to monopolize it and tax it now would they.
kinda of funny but, if hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe... and oil is getting harder to find..... and it takes more energy to make gas.......Why is gas and hydrogen priced about the same???? I can make hydrogen on my own very simply.... just another way to screw over the people!!!!!
@alexlam24 That's why the monetary system must be replaced with a Resource Based Economy. thevenusproject(dot)com /watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w And it would not be expensive if we kept the monetary system but made electricity with Hot Rock Geothermal Energy. /watch?v=M8t5MgNWOuc
@dakoffran unless you live in california it might be lower idk i'm on the east coast. but anyway its the government wanting your money. why do u think the amish are so happy they dont pay shit
@dakoffran A few reasons. The most obvious is that not many petrol stations would carry the taps and the hydrogen. Making it rarer than petrol from a consumer point of view. Anything rare from a consumers point will always attract a higher sum. The price will go down with more stations taking up the hydrogen pumps to a point where you are stupid not to have a hydrogen car for driving.
@dakoffran i believe so, i mean for an extra $6000.00 they could chuck on the pricetag, then get them out more the door... the future of mechanics would become something like the dodo and the dinosaur as they try to say at the end but. this clip was cutoff...
@dakoffran The hydrogen for the cars would be taking from water, but when you use the hydrogen in an internal combustion engine after being sparked it turns back to water from the heat and pressure. Amazing right? You get it form water then use it and it turns back to water. ^.^ Also there is no difference between power from using a fuel cell version or ICE version, so people can choose which ever.
@dakoffran hydrogen costs so much because there is so few stations where you can get it. You are right that hydrogen has to be made using energy, but we can choose what way are we producing the energy for hydrogen. If we burn fuel to make hydrogen it is not good. But if we use for example sun power for hydrogen that's better. Concerning the price - scarcity makes the price. As hydrogen becomes more popular, the price will fall.
@dakoffran you raise good points, and it is possible to make your own hydrogen, however, im sure everyone has heard of the Hindenburg. unless your a firefighter looking for more house fires to put out i dont think people should be making hydrogen.
@dakoffran thats not even a hydrogen fuel cell, theyre using hydrogen thats already separated from water to power the cars electrics, the pricks are only doing it as a way of generating more fuckin money, hydrogen fuel cells can separate their own hydrogen by filling the tank with water...not this compressed hydrogen shit, what happened to the GM version that was a water only car.......
the first cumbustion engine ran off of hydrogen but when the hindenburge crashed they all switched to gasoline and the people in this video act like it is the first time that a car has ran off of hydrogen
hydrogen has more of a punch when it is burned so it gives your car more torque and hp
Difficult though it may be to produce hydrogen en-masse today, it's still got the potential with further research to be the most abundant, renewable, and powerful source of energy. Unlike batteries, it requires only a tank to store it while the fuel cell creates power. Batteries on the other hand are slow to recharge, eventually wear out, and are made of HIGHLY corrosive chemicals that take a great deal of time, money and energy to properly dispose of.
It is all lies folks. Don't get sucked in, hydrogen is not the future of motoring. 2/3 of the energy is gone during the production, because it is so hard to make. 30% efficiency is hardly worthwhile. It is cheaper and more environmental-friendly to just use electricity that has already been produced instead of wasting it on producing hydrogen.
Indeed, there arent many environmentally efficient ways to produce electricity. Wind and solar power dont put out much energy, and it needs to be windy and sunny respectively... you have electric dams, but there arent that many of those... nuclear but you have to deal with the spent rods for hundreds of years... so yeah you have to burn coal or what have you to run the turbines
@Avenger2680 I disagree. I read in New Scientist the other day that apparently all the technology needed to stop humans using fossil fuels and start using alternative energy efficiently is available (according to most scientists and engineers); but it's the economists, politicians and the poor PR the green environmentalists set up are getting in the way.
@ZomboDeZany Yes. The Venus Project. Problem with hydrogen is people would be able to produce their own fuel from home. Water and electricity is all that is needed. Big, big problem for big asshole corporations! And electricity can be produced from Hot Rock Energy Technology=Power for ever and ever.
@stevenjw2006 only problem is the filling stations :) we have ten or so, in all of denmark. but yes, it is the future, and I cant wait until you can get such cars here!
@bajer111 Filling stations are easy to build. All you need is water and electricity. Even a house could produce hydrogen! And I think that is the biggest problem, people being able to produce their own fuel!
@boumar19721972 Ok, now let's assume that producing H is as easy as you claim. How do you suggest to store it? How will you compress it so you can store enough to make it useful? How do you feel about producing and storing such a flammable gas in your house?
@advandermeer Tell you what, why don't you stop being like the rest of the population and combat your laziness and do your own research and see that Hydrogen as safe as gasoline. It's not going to explode like an Hydrogen bomb because the process isn't the same. I would feel safe because you don't need to store that much!The problem with Hydrogen economy is that the big corporations can't profit!Production of electricity can be done by Hot Rock Energy which is free once the well drilled!
@boumar19721972 When you say hydrogen is as safe as gasoline you're not making a case for hydrogen. Would you keep 50 liters of gasoline in your house?
Apart from that, I am aware that a tank full of hydrogen cannot be compared with a hydrogen bomb. I am afraid that you don't realize the pressure that is needed to compress hydrogen to fit in a reasonably sized tank. Add to that the risk of home fueling. Gas stations are checked every year for leaks and malfunctions. Now try that at million homes
@advandermeer Natural gas that is transported through pipelines travels at high pressure in the pipeline, at pressures anywhere from 200 to 1500 pounds per square inch (psi).And cities are full of pipes but you don't see any problems with that of course.Natural Gas,Oil,Coal and Nuclear good. Hydrogen bad!
@advandermeer The home fueling so far only goes for electic cars (Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt), there are some gas stations that have hydrogen pumps. It would be too dangerous to have a hydrogen tank at home, I agree. But it wouldn't even be necessary because you could fuel up your car with hydrogen at a gas station just like you can with oil.
@stevenjw2006 the main problem with a hydrogen car is that hydrogen is extremely flammable and less stable than petrol... so a crash could result in a giant explosion.
@bluecheezbox Yes BUT the containers the compressed hydrogen is in is Extremely durable. It's like a black box in airliners. It will not get destroyed.
@stevenjw2006 Problem is, H might be the most abundant resource on the planet, but producing big amounts of hydrogen via electrolysis of water, requires rediculous amounts of electricity.. Also the logistics of compressing and so on, can be tricky.
I know you just made a laugh about it, but there you have it..
@MayoDK you sir are correct. dont try to talk reality to these people. turning a flat substance into a burnable fuel is wrought w/complicated timing/egr/ etc....even the plates themselves get eaten by the concoction.
honda makes the best vehicles and actually cares about the products they make.
i'd still rather drive a hydrogen powered car then a gas or electric. those electric cars cause more pollution to the environment then what they save (it is actually mentioned how in this episode of TP as well). the prius imports the items to make the battery from numerous locations around the planet. all the emissions that pull the prius together actually hurt the planet a lot more
Didn't any off you watch the video. It's simple; i doesn't have batteries, you don't have to charge it up. The utility companies dont want this car to suceed, they want cars you have to charge up so they can rip you off even more than they do now. They are just rubbing their dirty little hands thinking about there profits soaring even more if we buy cars you plug in, Come on car manufacturers, go hydrogen, they are better & greener than battery cars
Just wondering (saves me googling and frankly better as a conversation) how much horse power can we extrude from hydrogen? Can anyone explain how the electric motors turn the wheels on the fly, I know its the exchange of hydrogen and oxygen that creates electricity but .. in terms of power what can we expect? The more catalytic the reaction the more power?
When we do run short on oil, hopefully Leno's idea of using efficient cars for commutes catches on. It's gonna be a sad day when we have to give up V8s and all the awesome cars we've grown up with for good.
I dislike this car and the hydrogen fuel cells in general because filling a tank full of Liquid hydrogen at 1,326psi is to me like having a very powerful hydrogen bomb under your hind end! And with all the advancements going on with on demand HHO generators there is no need for that lever of danger. Especially since there are on demand systems that produce enough to run even large trucks completely on HHO. Wake up people, using the filling stations means they still have you by the wallets!
@Bloc911 nice. have a look at this 'tomorrows world' concept of charging electric vehicles whilst theyre on the move. watch?v=RnePffoZs_k&feature=player_embedded
ORIGINAL ARTICLE ...guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/29/wireless-charging-electric-cars
have you had a look at GEET system. im gonna convert my 2.2 KVA generator. cross your fingers for me.
@HFCHSvids youre saying that electricity counts as fossil fuel when it comes from coal, but that electricity generated from solar or wind isnt a fossil fuel? you are a retarded
also nice job repeating what i said in the first place
@seniorspedo yeah because electricity is produced from coal, so it is produced from a fossil fuel, electricity produced from a renewable energy source is still the same exact electricity, but it's not produced from a fossil fuel. just like powering a house burns fossil fuels too.
He means electricity that is produced from steam turbine power stations that use coal or gas as their heat source counts as fossil fuel derived energy.
Battery electric cars are flawed because most of the electricity they are charged with still comes from fossil fuel sources plus the batteries are usually made up of harmful chemials, a Hydrogen fuel cell with Hydrogen produced from an offshore wind farm can last almost indefinately as a mode of transport.
@seniorspedo You're still not understanding, Electricity isn't a fossil fuel, everyone knows that, what he's saying is that there's no green credentials with electric cars if the production of the electricity uses fossil fuels.
Same with Hydrogen, it's only a clean fuel if you use renewables to produce the electricity to power the electrolysis reaction that produces it from water.
@seniorspedo I'm not arguing about what he said, I'm arguing about what he meant.
You just don't understand what he means, it's obvious to most people.
You can't call electric cars eco-friendly if the electricity is sourced from fossil fuel power plants, the only benefit is cutting down on street noise and local pollution.
@HFCHSvids Only if the hydrogen is produced though elecrolysis using a renuable power source like Solar or wind, at the moment a significant amount of the world's commercial hydrogen production relies on fossil fuel derived electricity.
What we need are more offshore wind farms, photovoltaic panels on house roofs and more geothermal powerstations, nuclear fission can fill the gap in the meantime but it's not a long term solution.
@MyRepresentativeOrg wtf are you talking about? What ban on hydrogen cars? Just the companies cannot ban makers from building cars. They can put out a lot of propaganda about how crappy it is (example: Toyota Prius) but they cannot just ban it. They have to give reasons for it, also. The only reason they can give is that hydrogen... might be dangerous... They don't even know how dangerous. Please link me to the actual government page with the ban. DON'T just link me to someone who says it.
The current moratorium on Alt-Fuel vehicle sales is to 2015. The Petroleum industry wants to extend the moratorium to 2025. Join 'Hydrogen Cars Now' group in Facebook to campaign for the Sale of Hydrogen vehicles today.
Once we get Automakers to sell them, we can acquire h2 home refuelers, both Solar and Natural Gas driven.
We still won't go back to using horses soley for transporation unless aliens come down and take all our resources
MaddDogg81 7 hours ago
They'll find a way to increase the price of Hydrogen
MaddDogg81 1 week ago
@MaddDogg81 Inevitable. But we really have no choice if we don't want to resort to looking at a horses bum or... sigh... riding bicycles....
MADMANx511 15 hours ago
If hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and they're selling it for the same price as petrol its ridiculous. Stupid gas companies.
Casper7412 2 weeks ago
@Casper7412 that might just be because the infrastructure for compressed hydrogen isn't as widespread as that for petrol. Once compressing hydrogen becomes more ubiquitous, the price of producing it will probably (hopefully) go down. Also, comparatively speaking, petrol is very cheap in the US, so it would already be a good deal here in Europe, but that's not to say that it shouldn't be cheaper.
74dorset 1 week ago
@Casper7412 Nitrogen is the most abundant element in our atmosphere, which is the only reasonable place to get resources from. Therefore your argument is invalid.
SmileyLieutenantDan 1 week ago
@Casper7412 actually it's not abundancy that makes hydrogen pricing equal to petrol, but rather the required process for refining it in a compressed manner
7adz 1 week ago
instead of putting a hydrogen fuel cell, they should build it with a hydrogen generator... That way you don't need a hydrogen station... All you need is clean water :)
liftedview 2 weeks ago
@liftedview that'd be cool but can hydrogen generators be that small?
74dorset 1 week ago
"to test the most important car, since the car was invented"
liftedview 2 weeks ago
This is the best thing that Top Gear has done.
74dorset 2 weeks ago
it will take hundreds of years to run out of oil
MaddDogg81 3 weeks ago
@MaddDogg81 but if the price of oil continues to go up maybe it would be cheaper use hydrogen (or if the price of compressing the gas go down)
KolosGodor 1 week ago
the thing is an electric car will cost less to run because the electricity would cost less when you charge it wiht just electricity
MaddDogg81 3 weeks ago
I love the bikini girls at about 2 minutes, I'd lick their pussies and assholes.
MaddDogg81 3 weeks ago
a Honda that drives like a Honda isn't a bad thing
MaddDogg81 3 weeks ago
The future of motor vehicules, that's some brilliant engineering from Honda.
RanjeeveB 1 month ago
"prius, sucka!"
normanseno 1 month ago
Hydrogen is not the future in cars.
mikennamorato 1 month ago
2:20 :D ahhahahahah
MixyBoy 1 month ago
you can burn hydrogen in a normal engine rather than gas or using the hydrogen in a fuel cell, that could save all that matters to us enthusiasts, our cars in 10 years would be very similar except for what we put in the tank, but we won't notice it.
kernals12 1 month ago
basic economics
oil will never run out, the supply will get so low and demand so high that its price will force the development of a substitute fuel
acmoc 2 months ago
Hydrogen the future and always the future, call me when they have a sub £50k car ready to buy
eldictator1 2 months ago
genious
kzrollzable 2 months ago
@42Utopia And gasoline is less flamible than water.
burn2theground 2 months ago
@burn2theground But the fuel that powers this isn't water. It's hydrogen. And hydrogen, by nature, is HIGHLY flammable.
I'm sure home production will be possible, but considering the tank stores it in a highly compressed form, pressurizing it will be as much an issue as generation (let's face it, any idiot can make hydrogen at home with tap water, a bit of wire, and a battery), and it's probably going to just be more convenient and cost effective to fuel up at a hydrogen station.
nightdagger 2 months ago
the reason why the compressed hydrogen costs as much as petrol is probably cuz the process in making compressed hydrogen requires oil...lame~
krnboi501 3 months ago
This is absolute future, and must be made reality ASAP, fuck the oil company's. if they were not in the way, we would already use this kind of cars.
ilcool90 3 months ago
WAIT! So let's do the math.
number of people in the world is increasing..
number of cars is increasing..
amount of fossil fuel is decreasing
... so like.. They sell you this hybrid sh*t so more people in can use the fossil fuel just in greater amount of time? How are you selling the environment then ? Owners of the largest oil companies is just trying to postpone the inevitable and pay everyone to not use the hydrogen fuel... they are the true evil of this century.
cyfer911 3 months ago
Prius sucker !!!! hahaha
Jeremyevo90 3 months ago
this is complete green peace dogma........Hydrogen cars seem great but there completely inefficient
TheShodan2004 4 months ago
@TheShodan2004 This one has 130hp or whatever May said. And it's the first one. I can only imagine them getting more and more efficient.
Sisound 3 months ago
Lovely dream, hopefully it comes true :)
fwd079 4 months ago
@MrTkema Hydrogen fuel cells produce absolutely pure water, it's completely drinkable after the hydrogen is used to produce electricity in the fuel cell. Also, with new fuel cell technologies, hydrogen can be produced on site by converting water to oxygen and hydrogen inside the car before recombining it a few seconds later after using the hydrogen to produce electricity. It's not any more dangerous than gasoline.
CurtisSobie 4 months ago
"Compained by a little woooooo sound!"
WHAT?!XD
Cykelpump33 4 months ago
i can imagen if a little part fail how much would it cost to fix it
catrachofreak 4 months ago
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MrTkema 4 months ago
@MrTkema HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Did you ever go to school? THE AMOUNT OF WATER ON THE PLANET EARTH WILL ALWAYS STAY THE SAME.
PS2Gameplays 4 months ago
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MrTkema 4 months ago
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MrTkema 4 months ago
@MrTkema Every water is drinkable. It's just a matter of filtering it.
PS2Gameplays 4 months ago
@MrTkema u mad, pure drinking water will end someday, everyone will die, and we will drink oil'n hydrogen.. we won't drink electricity smd.
AshThEpSYcHo 4 months ago
@MrTkema What's your problem? The hydrogen car IS producing electric power... So it's also, an Electric car, even better than those that was powered with batteries. In other words, YOU'RE ALREADY INSULTING A CAR THAT YOU OBVIOUSLY THOUGHT IT RULES!!!! =____="
orihalchon 4 months ago
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MrTkema 4 months ago
@MrTkema It's funny you say that again, because hydrogen car IS an electric car.
Look dude, i respect your opinion. Because i also do hope that electric cars will be used as the main transportation. And i agree with you at some part of it.
orihalchon 3 months ago
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orihalchon 3 months ago
But if your thinking the electric car your talking is BATTERY cars, then your mad. In a few miles, it's just going to dropped out in the middle of a road, when you're not even on the way to home. AND, to recharge it, you have to wait in a HALF day. The Battery cars isn't ready yet... Like it or not, the solution is hydrogen cars..
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@orihalchon you have no idea what you are talking about
eldictator1 2 months ago
@orihalchon I have in mind a battery that could make a tesla model s go 600+ miles on a charge.This is proven and is possible though the power of carbon nanotubes. Look up carbon nanotube battery on google. Also it would shane the weight from 3800 lbs down to only 3200 lbs. Mike E.
mikennamorato 1 month ago
@orihalchon Yeah and Batterys charge from grid energy is stilll mostly fossil fuels and nuclear so an electric car that is charged with Pollution is just Inefficient'
fishfrizbee 1 month ago
@fishfrizbee Yes, that's right. Well i'm not actually disliking Battery cars though. Hydrogen cars, well at least, will be the temporary substitute 'till the Battery cars are ready... And i think they should've ready when eco-powerplants (Solar Powers, Fusion Reactors, etc) is very much replacing the CO2-producing powerplants ;)
orihalchon 1 month ago
@orihalchon Not really, you can't get hydrogen on its own, it has to be extracted from compounds and that extraction uses fossil fuels.
ZerkosXD 1 month ago
@ZerkosXD Well, you could use sola- and wind power to produse hydrogen.
5260Lhn 3 weeks ago
@5260Lhn You don't produce hydrogen you extract it, and yes solar power and wind power could be used for the extraction.
ZerkosXD 3 weeks ago
@MrTkema dude if you ever read a history book you would see that the first cars were extremly expencive and only the very rich were able to afford them and that was roughly a hundred years ago so maby in another hundred years hydrogen cars might be as fast and have the same cost as normal cars today
mrlordpancakes2 3 months ago
@orihalchon this is a true hybrid that isn't using petrol.. another step in the right direction.
jawbraeka 3 months ago
@jawbraeka lol Let me correct that ;) Hybrid still is a car that uses both petrol & electric. So the Clarity can't be called as Hybrid (even if u call it a true hybrid lol), since it only has an hydrogen-use electric motor hehehe X3
orihalchon 3 months ago
Electric+Hydrogen = FREEDOM !
daswada9 4 months ago
@SpaceTiger9 Please watch the video above "the great hydrogen swindle". That explains my point...
maravalhadas 4 months ago
@KrankesHirn I agree with you. The diference is that electric cars are already available and hydrogen cars are science fiction. Plus, hydrogen needs fossil fuels too.
maravalhadas 5 months ago
@maravalhadas Hydrogen cars aren't science fiction. They've had working hydrogen cars for a while now. However,either through technology or lack of interest, we don't have the capability of making a consumer hydrogen car at this time. It's unlikely we'll see a switch to an alternate fuel until we get dangerously close or actually do run out of fossil fuels, where then we will be FORCED to start building hydrogen pumps, hydrogen cars, etc.
SpaceTiger9 4 months ago
Prius sucka!
deftdrummer 5 months ago
@dakoffran, they're the same price because hydrogen is still expensive to produce in large quantities. Plus, the technology just isn't here yet. Most of these are just test vehicles. But in the future, it won't cost you nearly as much to fill up.
jwolfe32536 5 months ago
4:08
A bee???
Leggoeggo101 5 months ago 3
@Leggoeggo101 Looked more like a fly.
KrankesHirn 5 months ago
i think its funny how they decide to use hydrogen to be ablt to meter it and charge you for it, instead of building it with its own on board machine that can create the hydrogen to power it.
R0JIBLANC0 6 months ago
/watch?v=qaZNSfCCrsQ&NR=1 at 5:38
maravalhadas 6 months ago
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maravalhadas 6 months ago
please watch "Who Killed The Electric Car? "
lets see if I understood: Hidrogen cars are great, electric are terrible (Tesla)
How much Shell paid for this??? I love the new age piano music when he is filling the car with hidrogen....
maravalhadas 6 months ago
@maravalhadas Technically Hydrogen cars are electric cars. The difference is that they generate electricity at the time, while electric cars take electricity from another sources and store it in batteries. Note that a big chunk of the electricity is still produced by burning fossil fuels.
KrankesHirn 5 months ago
How do we know if this thing leaks into the air? What if detection devices fail. A Billion Metric tons leaking into the Atmosphere does not sound very appealing for the future. We want to eliminate all potential problems as possible.
tnguyen318 6 months ago
@tnguyen318 It's basic chemistry. H2 + 0 = H20. If something else is to be expelled, the car doesn't have an engine. It has a nuclear reactor.
KrankesHirn 5 months ago
Some components (like tires) are made from oil, so that brings a big problem too..
edgarassimanauskas95 6 months ago
@edgarassimanauskas95 but using oil to make tires doesnt use nearly as much oil as the world uses to just power their cars. and think of this, when the earth does run out of oil, i highly doubt itll take too long for an alternative to be found for making tires
Trekfan1001 6 months ago
Those hot girls were hot
magma008 7 months ago
@ResiusOnline I'd prefer individuals to have the power to produce the hydrogen cheaply at home or the hydrogen gets produced onboard the vehicle... but as I said... it's all about concentrating power into the hands of the few.
soleprobe 7 months ago
I agree that supercars would be in no danger - as Jay Leno said, they would stay exactly where they are: the weekend car. Nobody uses supercars to go grocery shopping or to go to work, they use it purely for fun -- and because normal practical cars would now all be using hydrogen, supercars would remain in the same state they are now - just for fun.
Shiek927 8 months ago
Everything's fine except the cost of the hydrogen... conveniently set to the same price as gas... I'm sure there are technologies where people can generate their own hydrogen at home for a lot cheaper... but then the bastards wouldn't be able to monopolize it and tax it now would they.
soleprobe 8 months ago
@soleprobe
Mass produced hydrogen would be MUCH cheaper than oil.
ResiusOnline 7 months ago
Saviour of the supercars!
MattMK45 8 months ago
Hydrogen filling station? Where?? If you can find it its really expensive!.
FUOPEC1 8 months ago
I woud buy it.......and park it side by side in my garage it an American Muscle car XD
JPacheco91 9 months ago 2
full episode at loveteevee(dot)com
squidballlove 9 months ago
kinda of funny but, if hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe... and oil is getting harder to find..... and it takes more energy to make gas.......Why is gas and hydrogen priced about the same???? I can make hydrogen on my own very simply.... just another way to screw over the people!!!!!
dakoffran 9 months ago 24
@dakoffran Hydrogen is as expensive as gas because A. Its compressed which means it takes a lot of money to make a sealed tank.
alexlam24 9 months ago
@alexlam24 That's why the monetary system must be replaced with a Resource Based Economy. thevenusproject(dot)com /watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w And it would not be expensive if we kept the monetary system but made electricity with Hot Rock Geothermal Energy. /watch?v=M8t5MgNWOuc
boumar19721972 9 months ago
@dakoffran You need the hydrongen in it's pure state and compressed. It's not like you can use tap water.
JoanaL1994 9 months ago
@dakoffran unless you live in california it might be lower idk i'm on the east coast. but anyway its the government wanting your money. why do u think the amish are so happy they dont pay shit
CRABCORE4EVA 9 months ago
@dakoffran A few reasons. The most obvious is that not many petrol stations would carry the taps and the hydrogen. Making it rarer than petrol from a consumer point of view. Anything rare from a consumers point will always attract a higher sum. The price will go down with more stations taking up the hydrogen pumps to a point where you are stupid not to have a hydrogen car for driving.
Merry123ish 4 months ago
@dakoffran i believe so, i mean for an extra $6000.00 they could chuck on the pricetag, then get them out more the door... the future of mechanics would become something like the dodo and the dinosaur as they try to say at the end but. this clip was cutoff...
jawbraeka 3 months ago
@dakoffran The hydrogen for the cars would be taking from water, but when you use the hydrogen in an internal combustion engine after being sparked it turns back to water from the heat and pressure. Amazing right? You get it form water then use it and it turns back to water. ^.^ Also there is no difference between power from using a fuel cell version or ICE version, so people can choose which ever.
HeadSHOT604 3 months ago
@dakoffran hydrogen costs so much because there is so few stations where you can get it. You are right that hydrogen has to be made using energy, but we can choose what way are we producing the energy for hydrogen. If we burn fuel to make hydrogen it is not good. But if we use for example sun power for hydrogen that's better. Concerning the price - scarcity makes the price. As hydrogen becomes more popular, the price will fall.
karipekkapirinen 3 months ago
@dakoffran
Its abundant but its hard to get it in H2 form, most of its either mixed with air in space (or the Sun) or in H2O.
atami210 2 months ago
@dakoffran you raise good points, and it is possible to make your own hydrogen, however, im sure everyone has heard of the Hindenburg. unless your a firefighter looking for more house fires to put out i dont think people should be making hydrogen.
42Utopia 2 months ago
@dakoffran thats not even a hydrogen fuel cell, theyre using hydrogen thats already separated from water to power the cars electrics, the pricks are only doing it as a way of generating more fuckin money, hydrogen fuel cells can separate their own hydrogen by filling the tank with water...not this compressed hydrogen shit, what happened to the GM version that was a water only car.......
Daimo988 2 months ago
Wonderful! Instead of getting ripped off by Big Oil buying gas, they will rip us off buying hydrogen. Just like any other addict switching drugs.
Provided that the car of the future will ever be build, which I don't see happening any time soon
advandermeer 9 months ago
Haha I didn't know they knew Jerry Jeff Walker across the pond
gfromtha713 10 months ago
4:20 sounds wrong while I look away from video
chrispen9 10 months ago
What is the name of the piano track that starts at 6:27 please?
Duststorm81 10 months ago
the first cumbustion engine ran off of hydrogen but when the hindenburge crashed they all switched to gasoline and the people in this video act like it is the first time that a car has ran off of hydrogen
hydrogen has more of a punch when it is burned so it gives your car more torque and hp
MrThemooman123 10 months ago 2
Difficult though it may be to produce hydrogen en-masse today, it's still got the potential with further research to be the most abundant, renewable, and powerful source of energy. Unlike batteries, it requires only a tank to store it while the fuel cell creates power. Batteries on the other hand are slow to recharge, eventually wear out, and are made of HIGHLY corrosive chemicals that take a great deal of time, money and energy to properly dispose of.
shadowstorm1989 10 months ago
It is all lies folks. Don't get sucked in, hydrogen is not the future of motoring. 2/3 of the energy is gone during the production, because it is so hard to make. 30% efficiency is hardly worthwhile. It is cheaper and more environmental-friendly to just use electricity that has already been produced instead of wasting it on producing hydrogen.
HarveyMushman85 10 months ago
Indeed, there arent many environmentally efficient ways to produce electricity. Wind and solar power dont put out much energy, and it needs to be windy and sunny respectively... you have electric dams, but there arent that many of those... nuclear but you have to deal with the spent rods for hundreds of years... so yeah you have to burn coal or what have you to run the turbines
Avenger2680 10 months ago
@Avenger2680 I disagree. I read in New Scientist the other day that apparently all the technology needed to stop humans using fossil fuels and start using alternative energy efficiently is available (according to most scientists and engineers); but it's the economists, politicians and the poor PR the green environmentalists set up are getting in the way.
ZomboDeZany 10 months ago
@ZomboDeZany Yes. The Venus Project. Problem with hydrogen is people would be able to produce their own fuel from home. Water and electricity is all that is needed. Big, big problem for big asshole corporations! And electricity can be produced from Hot Rock Energy Technology=Power for ever and ever.
boumar19721972 10 months ago
Problem with electricity - over %80 comes from burning fossil fuel. Dumbass hippies.
newcombstrohschein 10 months ago
Wish I had that in my F-150...
VancouverPoland 10 months ago
Too bad there are no hydrogen filling stations in Illinois.
strzelecki1 10 months ago
1:00 4:47
BlackMilk47 10 months ago
that's Great! more car marker need to convert
Datruebdizzy7285 10 months ago
THE ONLY PROBLEM IS WHAT! WHAT IS IT!
stevenjw2006 11 months ago 41
@stevenjw2006 expenisve to produce hydrogen in large scale quantaties with our current technology.
7L 10 months ago
@stevenjw2006 Price: 50,000, but I'm sure that will drop in the next decade or so.
newcombstrohschein 10 months ago
@stevenjw2006 only problem is the filling stations :) we have ten or so, in all of denmark. but yes, it is the future, and I cant wait until you can get such cars here!
bajer111 10 months ago
@bajer111 Filling stations are easy to build. All you need is water and electricity. Even a house could produce hydrogen! And I think that is the biggest problem, people being able to produce their own fuel!
boumar19721972 10 months ago
@boumar19721972 Ok, now let's assume that producing H is as easy as you claim. How do you suggest to store it? How will you compress it so you can store enough to make it useful? How do you feel about producing and storing such a flammable gas in your house?
advandermeer 9 months ago
@advandermeer Tell you what, why don't you stop being like the rest of the population and combat your laziness and do your own research and see that Hydrogen as safe as gasoline. It's not going to explode like an Hydrogen bomb because the process isn't the same. I would feel safe because you don't need to store that much!The problem with Hydrogen economy is that the big corporations can't profit!Production of electricity can be done by Hot Rock Energy which is free once the well drilled!
boumar19721972 9 months ago
@boumar19721972 When you say hydrogen is as safe as gasoline you're not making a case for hydrogen. Would you keep 50 liters of gasoline in your house?
Apart from that, I am aware that a tank full of hydrogen cannot be compared with a hydrogen bomb. I am afraid that you don't realize the pressure that is needed to compress hydrogen to fit in a reasonably sized tank. Add to that the risk of home fueling. Gas stations are checked every year for leaks and malfunctions. Now try that at million homes
advandermeer 9 months ago
@advandermeer Natural gas that is transported through pipelines travels at high pressure in the pipeline, at pressures anywhere from 200 to 1500 pounds per square inch (psi).And cities are full of pipes but you don't see any problems with that of course.Natural Gas,Oil,Coal and Nuclear good. Hydrogen bad!
boumar19721972 9 months ago
@advandermeer The home fueling so far only goes for electic cars (Nissan Leaf, Chevrolet Volt), there are some gas stations that have hydrogen pumps. It would be too dangerous to have a hydrogen tank at home, I agree. But it wouldn't even be necessary because you could fuel up your car with hydrogen at a gas station just like you can with oil.
JoanaL1994 9 months ago
@stevenjw2006 the main problem with a hydrogen car is that hydrogen is extremely flammable and less stable than petrol... so a crash could result in a giant explosion.
bluecheezbox 9 months ago
@bluecheezbox But if handled carefully like petrol, it would be useful.
alexlam24 9 months ago
@bluecheezbox Yes BUT the containers the compressed hydrogen is in is Extremely durable. It's like a black box in airliners. It will not get destroyed.
austins2002jaguarXJR 9 months ago
@stevenjw2006 Problem is, H might be the most abundant resource on the planet, but producing big amounts of hydrogen via electrolysis of water, requires rediculous amounts of electricity.. Also the logistics of compressing and so on, can be tricky.
I know you just made a laugh about it, but there you have it..
MayoDK 7 months ago
@MayoDK you sir are correct. dont try to talk reality to these people. turning a flat substance into a burnable fuel is wrought w/complicated timing/egr/ etc....even the plates themselves get eaten by the concoction.
paulpanch 7 months ago
@stevenjw2006 Trying to make the Hydrogen as it needs a lot of energy to make it
GroupWizard 4 months ago
honda makes the best vehicles and actually cares about the products they make.
i'd still rather drive a hydrogen powered car then a gas or electric. those electric cars cause more pollution to the environment then what they save (it is actually mentioned how in this episode of TP as well). the prius imports the items to make the battery from numerous locations around the planet. all the emissions that pull the prius together actually hurt the planet a lot more
hydrogen > battery > hybrid > gas
PSFanBoy 11 months ago
Didn't any off you watch the video. It's simple; i doesn't have batteries, you don't have to charge it up. The utility companies dont want this car to suceed, they want cars you have to charge up so they can rip you off even more than they do now. They are just rubbing their dirty little hands thinking about there profits soaring even more if we buy cars you plug in, Come on car manufacturers, go hydrogen, they are better & greener than battery cars
1Petesy 11 months ago
That is what the clarity does.
Its an electric car that is exactly the same as any other petrol variant.
ShasOKaiis 11 months ago
i can live with this car... i think one day u could make a lambo run on H2 and would still be as fast
bigjim247365 11 months ago
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James: "In the universe"
gcorp87 11 months ago
Jeremy: "In the WORLD"
James: "In the unvierse"
gcorp87 11 months ago
Just wondering (saves me googling and frankly better as a conversation) how much horse power can we extrude from hydrogen? Can anyone explain how the electric motors turn the wheels on the fly, I know its the exchange of hydrogen and oxygen that creates electricity but .. in terms of power what can we expect? The more catalytic the reaction the more power?
sajabz2007 1 year ago
When we do run short on oil, hopefully Leno's idea of using efficient cars for commutes catches on. It's gonna be a sad day when we have to give up V8s and all the awesome cars we've grown up with for good.
Fenyx6 1 year ago
4:10 aghh bee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gta4rulesass 1 year ago
here Jeremy didnt say that any of his Tesla went run out of energy. As the same BBC itself has admitted.
The review here is really misleading.
Sorry I was trying to ad the links but youtube doesnt allow me to do it =(
Look it out on the web. Cheers to all.
kyoshiroma 1 year ago
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pause at 5:03.....thats Jay Leno's Tank Car that he built ;)
Mercenaries2isbeast 1 year ago
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Mercenaries2isbeast 1 year ago
I dislike this car and the hydrogen fuel cells in general because filling a tank full of Liquid hydrogen at 1,326psi is to me like having a very powerful hydrogen bomb under your hind end! And with all the advancements going on with on demand HHO generators there is no need for that lever of danger. Especially since there are on demand systems that produce enough to run even large trucks completely on HHO. Wake up people, using the filling stations means they still have you by the wallets!
Bloc911 1 year ago
@Bloc911 Get solar panels on the roof of your garage then.
whenever there's light it powers an electrolysis reaction to produce hydrogen from water, ready to be used by you.
G1NZOU 1 year ago
@Bloc911 nice. have a look at this 'tomorrows world' concept of charging electric vehicles whilst theyre on the move. watch?v=RnePffoZs_k&feature=player_embedded
ORIGINAL ARTICLE ...guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/29/wireless-charging-electric-cars
have you had a look at GEET system. im gonna convert my 2.2 KVA generator. cross your fingers for me.
neiallswheel 1 year ago
One of James May's best films. Great work
bigcountry313 1 year ago
the whole process...AHEM!!! lol lmao
graveler2golem 1 year ago
за такими машинами будущее. была бы возможность, купил бы
catexis1 1 year ago
Hydrogen > Electric. Electric cars use fossil fuels, just like petroleum cars. Hydrogen creates it's own energy.
HFCHSvids 1 year ago
@HFCHSvids electric cars use electricity, its just that right now most electricity comes from coal instead of solar or wind
seniorspedo 1 year ago
@seniorspedo which is a fossil fuel...
HFCHSvids 1 year ago
@HFCHSvids so electricity is a fossil fuel? you must be a troll
seniorspedo 1 year ago
@seniorspedo where does the majority of electricity come from? Coal power plants, i.e. FOSSIL FUELS.
HFCHSvids 1 year ago
@HFCHSvids youre saying that electricity counts as fossil fuel when it comes from coal, but that electricity generated from solar or wind isnt a fossil fuel? you are a retarded
also nice job repeating what i said in the first place
seniorspedo 1 year ago
@seniorspedo yeah because electricity is produced from coal, so it is produced from a fossil fuel, electricity produced from a renewable energy source is still the same exact electricity, but it's not produced from a fossil fuel. just like powering a house burns fossil fuels too.
HFCHSvids 1 year ago
@seniorspedo No, you're the troll.
He means electricity that is produced from steam turbine power stations that use coal or gas as their heat source counts as fossil fuel derived energy.
Battery electric cars are flawed because most of the electricity they are charged with still comes from fossil fuel sources plus the batteries are usually made up of harmful chemials, a Hydrogen fuel cell with Hydrogen produced from an offshore wind farm can last almost indefinately as a mode of transport.
G1NZOU 1 year ago
@G1NZOU where the electricity comes from has nothing to do with wither or not electricity itself is a fossil fuel
seniorspedo 1 year ago
@seniorspedo You're still not understanding, Electricity isn't a fossil fuel, everyone knows that, what he's saying is that there's no green credentials with electric cars if the production of the electricity uses fossil fuels.
Same with Hydrogen, it's only a clean fuel if you use renewables to produce the electricity to power the electrolysis reaction that produces it from water.
G1NZOU 1 year ago
@G1NZOU he said "Electric cars use fossil fuels" all you're arguing with me about is wither or not he meant what he said
seniorspedo 1 year ago
@seniorspedo I'm not arguing about what he said, I'm arguing about what he meant.
You just don't understand what he means, it's obvious to most people.
You can't call electric cars eco-friendly if the electricity is sourced from fossil fuel power plants, the only benefit is cutting down on street noise and local pollution.
G1NZOU 1 year ago
@seniorspedo It's like saying eating pâté and saying you're a vegetarian.
Electricity from fossil fuel is energy from fossil fuel, only with delayed use.
G1NZOU 1 year ago
@HFCHSvids Only if the hydrogen is produced though elecrolysis using a renuable power source like Solar or wind, at the moment a significant amount of the world's commercial hydrogen production relies on fossil fuel derived electricity.
What we need are more offshore wind farms, photovoltaic panels on house roofs and more geothermal powerstations, nuclear fission can fill the gap in the meantime but it's not a long term solution.
G1NZOU 1 year ago
@WobblingIndian
Because only California and Norway have hydro filling stations.
I'm also sure that the oil company's want to use every last drop of oil before these are on the road.
9mmStudios 1 year ago
this can change the future!!!! why aren't they starting to use this now!!!!????
WobblingIndian 1 year ago
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@Sharecashmoneymaker
you can also extract hydrogen from water. Water is basically two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
sobek995 1 year ago
@Sharecashmoneymaker
you can also extract hydrogen from water since water basically is two Hydrogen atoms and one oxygene atom.
sobek995 1 year ago
whatever happend to this car? its just gone.. why arent these for sale? even if they are inofficent, its carbonprint free :P
snelpiller 1 year ago
Suck it Prius.
1disturbedlover 1 year ago 76
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kneight01 1 year ago
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kneight01 1 year ago
"in America we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously"... couldn't have said it any betterJay.
Wavieraxe 1 year ago 2
Now THIS is a great enviromentalist car!
Andyilmatto 1 year ago
I hate the way they talk about honda.... HONDAS ROCK ! long live honda!
Knezicdex 1 year ago
Aww bummer, i thought this was a water for gas type technology...oh well, it's still something better than gas.
purplefetus3 1 year ago
The Ban on H2 Fuel cell Cars until the year 2015 has been forced on us by the Petroleum Industry.
When 2015 rolls around the Petroleum lobby hopes to extend the moratorium until 2025.
It may take Anti-Trust Action to allow Alternative Fueled Vehicles to be SOLD in the United States.
In the mean time, only limited lease programs will be allowed.
Fight back, join us at facebook group number 172387699014
group name: hydrogen cars now
MyRepresentativeOrg 1 year ago
@MyRepresentativeOrg wtf are you talking about? What ban on hydrogen cars? Just the companies cannot ban makers from building cars. They can put out a lot of propaganda about how crappy it is (example: Toyota Prius) but they cannot just ban it. They have to give reasons for it, also. The only reason they can give is that hydrogen... might be dangerous... They don't even know how dangerous. Please link me to the actual government page with the ban. DON'T just link me to someone who says it.
loglog7 1 year ago
5:02 Jay Leno is a good sport, picking on his own countries cars handling like topgear do sometimes
krashdown102 1 year ago
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The current moratorium on Alt-Fuel vehicle sales is to 2015. The Petroleum industry wants to extend the moratorium to 2025. Join 'Hydrogen Cars Now' group in Facebook to campaign for the Sale of Hydrogen vehicles today.
Once we get Automakers to sell them, we can acquire h2 home refuelers, both Solar and Natural Gas driven.
MyRepresentativeOrg 1 year ago
5:04 jay lenos tank engine hot rod.... :)
oo and at 5:24 the y2k... jet engine motorbike... :O
hvkv0000 1 year ago