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  • you would be expecting to get a car like this from toyota

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  • cool.....my daughter wants me to get one :)

  • How fast toped out?

  • @Dylan2996oct 100mph or so

  • Wouldn't a lever for acceleration be a good idea? Braking controls the mood of the speed. We do away with the circle steering wheel and go fighter jet style.

  • im glad someone is filming this cool video!! whoo!!

  • I liked this concept car so much, the combination of motor wheel and enormous interior space showed me that this was going the be in my garage one day.

    But now that we know that hydrogen fuel cells are garbage, i wonder if they could remove every mechanical toys under the car and replace it with a true modern battery (and very large also!)

  • are they going to make these?

  • reminds me of the movie AI when they are traveling through the forest to abandon their robot son

  • Buy American. Buy General Motors.

  • More American crap trying to promote Hydrogen cars. Um, it's called ELECTRIC cars and it's the future of automobiles. Who the hell wants to pull over at a hydrogen station and fill up for $40 a tank like we do now for gas???

    Let me plug in my car!

    I'll stick with Japanese and European models until Americans can fully comprehend electric cars. ugh

  • @dweeper1020 you do realize that it takes hours to recharge an electric car and that the electricity has to come from somewhere right? you cant just say "hey, lets have electric cars" and then magically more power plants come into being. electricity, like everything else, is on a supply and demand system. by increasing the demand we have to increase the supply and the quickest way to do this (since most green power sources take years to make) is to burn fossil fuels...

  • @dweeper1020 and thus since we are burning fossil fuels to fuel our "green" cars we havent moved forward in the least bit. hydrogen cars are the future because hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe (the sun is made of hydrogen FYI) and seeing as how we live on a planet mostly covered by H2O why not use hydrogen powered cars? the reason hydrogen is so expensive now is because there isnt a huge demend for it so there arent many hydrogen processing plant

    hydrogen > electric

  • @CrustyOatmeal Wrong! What would you prefer: (1) 3 electirical plants that provide electricity for 35 million cars, or (2) 1.35 million hydrogen stations with thousands of hydrogen plants for 35 million cars?

    It's easy to manage/monitor a handful of electrical plants. Imagine trying to regulate and monitor MILLIONS of hydrogen stations; thousands of hydrogen plants; maybe even bootleggers selling canisters on the street of hydrogen they created ... etc etc.

    Electric cars ARE the future.

  • @CrustyOatmeal Moreover, the sheer volume of money it would take to create new hydrogen stations everywhere or convert gas stations to hydrogen stations. And instead of spending $100/month on gas, you would spend $100/month on hydrogen.

    If your house was powered by solar energy, you would just plug your car in at night, and spend ZERO dollars on fuel!

    Electric cars ARE the future.

  • @dweeper1020 yes, you would plug your electric car into your house at night to collect solar energy... at night... when the sun is on the other side of the planet. you pay for fuel regardless if it comes from electricity which you pay your electric company for, the money you spent on your solar panels which cannot supply the power needed for an electric car and your house, or you pay for fuel at a station

  • @CrustyOatmeal With solar panels, I'm paying not only for my car but my entire house. And over time, it would pay it for itself. Moreover, even if it didn't, I know that I am not contributing to green house gases at all. I'm pretty sure solar panels would power your car.

    And the bigger picture anyway is what I mentioned: regulating a handful of powerful plants vs regulating MILLIONS of hydrogen stations and hydrogen plants - not too mention how explosive hydrogen is.

  • @dweeper1020 it would be easy and cheep to convert gas stations into hydrogen stations since they are both explosive materials and as such they would both be stored in the same manner. all you would need to do is have pump 1-3 be gas and pump 4 be hydrogen and then slowly change the ratio based on the demand.

    and hydrogen is very easily collected throughout the world. to get gas you need to drill, to get electricity you need to build a plant, to get hydrogen you need a simple machine on water

  • @CrustyOatmeal Yes, if you compare gas vs hydrogen, hydrogen wins hands down.  But when you compare the future of electric cars vs hydrogen cars, it seems to me that electric cars come out the winner (for all the reasons I've already listed.)

    Nothing is "free". But electric cars make more sense since *I* can control how I want to supply my electricity (install solar panels, wind energy, etc.). WIth hydrogen, I'm forced to use big business and what *they* choose to charge me.

  • @dweeper1020 you have no choice in how much you are charged regardless. if you get solar panels you have to buy them (price based on supply/ demand), if you go solar you still pay for the windmill (based again on supply/ demand), and if you go hydrogen car you are buying hydrogen (still based on supply/ demand). no matter what avenue you go down you are paying for something that "they" provide but they are still bound by the laws of supply/ demand

  • @CrustyOatmeal Yes, of course, I pay for the solar panels (or wind panels). But over time, that expense will pay for itself. Moreover, my technology is truly green. My panels just sit on my roof and make energy!

    You, on the other hand, have to continually rely on big business to ship tanks of hydrogen to stations and keep shovelling out $20/week to fuel your car -- forever!

    Electric cars are just greener, and put the owner truly in control!

  • @dweeper1020

    Hydrogen will be allot cheaper than that.

    As people will have these cells in their own home. The real money to be made from cars will be service providing.

    People will not be paying their $20 on fuel it will be spent on car contract that are just like todays mobiles phones. A monthly fee will be paid.

  • @dweeper1020 if i was selling gas at a station for $4 a gallon and a guy down the street is selling for $3 a gallon more people are going to buy gas from him (given the quality of the service provided are of equal measure) and thus i will go out of business. this system works for the better; the customer gets the product at the cheapest going rate and the providers are encouraged to provide this service as cheap as possible

  • @CrustyOatmeal And tell me, then, if I own an electric car and my house is powered by solar panels (which is beginning to become popular), you will be paying money every week to fuel your car with explosive canisters of hydrogen. It may start at $10 a tank (but next year it may go to $11.50 --inflation).

    Me, on the other hand, will simply plug my car in at night to my solar panel array costing me nothing.

    My main point, however, is still regulating MILLIONS of explosive hydrogen cars/stations.

  • @dweeper1020 the electric companies work in this same manner (trust me my pops works for PG&E, the company providing electricity for california). if everybody goes out and buys electric cars the demand for electricity will increase while the supply will remain the same and thus the price will go up due to electricity being a scarce commodity. in order to cope the electric companies will be forced to build more power plants which takes years to do, in the meantime the demand keeps rising

  • @CrustyOatmeal But while a new power plant is being built, couldn't people also purchase a couple solar panels to just power their car. The panels would charge during the day, and charge your car at night?

    There's definitely infrastructure that needs to be built (both with electric and hydrogen), but my main point is that managing and regulating millions of hydrogen stations along with bootleg canisters of explosive hydrogen doesn't compare with just regulating a handful of power plants.

  • wtf gm .. this looks like some total recall shit .. get to the reactor wade

  • hi guys..does this car cause pollution??? does this let dyoksid carbone from the exaust? and how are its emisions?

  • @scoot24925 its emissions is water

  • you guys do kno this was in 2002 right???

  • That looks awesome but accelerating with the wrist doesn't look to safe.

  • how can you survive if you crash with this car? its mostly made by glass and at the front theres only glass

  • @angelinos123

    Vehicle crash protection has come a long way in the last 10 years.What killed people in old all "Metal cars" was the engine and steering shaft coming into passenger compartment during the crash. By 2010 standards, those old tin cans are not safe at all, even if they weigh 2.5 tons.

  • @angelinos123 Remember, this is only a concept... They made only one of these and if they are going to make any more, they will have to apply to regulations. But then again, in the future perhaps, it won't be glass, it might be a clear perspex... Also, since the body is interchangeable, different bodies might have different strengths...

  • how much fast can it go ? :P

  • @TarikuKunn Top speed is 160 kph (about 100 mph). But I haven't been able to find anything about range, either actual now with a fuel tank of 5,000 psi hydrogen storage or the future expected 10,000 psi. They also haven't said exactly how they prevent an explosion in an accident (think Hindenberg). There are surely some kinks to be ironed out. But the concept is promising. Hydrogen is manufactured from seawater, and the only effluent from the car is water.

  • this would be soo much cooler with background music...

  • @theblim1 i'm interested in the sound of the vehicle itselfj

  • When can we get one?

  • The steering wheel is at a perfect angle for ergonomic usage. You won't get carpal tunnel from using it and it feels perfectly natural where it's placed. The only issue I see is one-hand driving. Show me a person that doesn't rest one hand on the top of the wheel and use the other one to do something else like drink a beverage, light a smoke, text a friend to tell them how much of a moron you are for texting while driving an 8 million dollar car... that sort of thing. Grandmas don't count. :-P

  • 8 million dollar car..hey ill get a second job at MDonalds..i can afford it..hehe

  • spoken by someone who has strong wrists

  • Accelerating and braking with the wrist may give you carpool tunnel syndrome! Oh geeze I'm funny!!!! BTW, way to explain WTF we are looking at.

  • Lol.......They have these already................there called Golfcarts

  • good one!

  • @teampullmyfinger...Yoy know typing, useing your mouse.....and in your case jerking off. You would get carpal tunnel sydrome. Way to go GM.

  • @willsco76 yoy know typing? LOL!

  • Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....­...

  • great car. but why they make the steering wheel like that? it's not comfortable at all.

  • psipunk . com

  • sounds like an airplane, but seems like a great car, good work!

  • I think its great that there are companies, who cares of the future.

    At some point, whatever we like it or not, then we will go short on oil.

    And experiments like this one, makes sure that when the time is up for oil, they have an alternative solution.

    But so far, personly i prefer the cheest sulotion.

    If its petrol, gas, brint, corn or what ever makes my car rolling. Dont care, just make it cheep.

  • great car ideal, say it ready? but fuel market is not right? you still have to HUNT for a station ...Where you going to get fuel? Like when they thought corn, and still just getting up factories to come up with supply to sell. So how and where you going to fuel this car?

  • yeah and the more gas we use the higher the prices will go I swear people are so freakin ignorant .Look at deisel fuel now that everyone wants these huge trucks with a deisel cuz there rich little fags that are soo far in debt or there rich parents bought it for them for christmas people need to wake up and really lok what were doing to the world

  • If car company's want to have new cleaner cars they should use on of these 2 fuel options either CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) or just H20.

  • COOL what next can that vehicle fly or transform to a robot or something more Capsule lol joke. Keep the good work GM.

  • FYI Hydrogen is made from natural gas. (a fossil fuel)

    We have lots of natural gas here, so its something they can sell you, besides oil.

    And yes, we could go li-po full plug in electric's with solar shingles (ENER) on our houses... but "hydrogen is the future!"

  • As I understand it, liquid hydrogen is contained under pressure like LP or natural gas. I remember seeing a video of a gas tank and a hydrogen tank both shot with a bullet; the gasoline exploded, the hydrogen just discharged through the hole created by the bullet. If you carried the hydrogen in a rubber bag, that would be a problem.

  • you are detroying your own country car company by telling them to build more muscle and big cars. What toyota and honda build best? small cars, what bmw build best? small cars. it is bad for enviroment and stupy plan

  • odds of this actually making the market? slim to none. Anyways, who would want to drive around with 3 tanks of HYDROGEN in their car? If you get hit, goodbye cruel world. I think it's awesome that its only by-product is water, but that thing is a bomb waiting to go off. The price tag is going to be big too, so most people wouldn't be able to afford it anyways.

    Good idea, but expensive. When it's cheap to buy a car like this, i'll do it. but until then, i'll stick to my Grand Marquis.

  • Not true Khaos... no more dangerous really than a gasoline engine. Everyone always attributes the Hindenburg to how "explosive" hydrogen is... The Hindenburg burnt up because of the material of the blimp material itself... not the hydrogen...  Sure the hydrogen burnt up, but only because the blimp material caught fire or something.

  • actually the hindenburg went down in flames because a spark from the engines ignited the hydrogen gas inside the blimp, causing the material to burn up

  • at least they didnt turn the Pento into a hydrogen....goodbye cruel world indeed...LOL

  • what GM shoud be doing is

    make better cars just like in the old days

    what america wants is powerful cars

    muscle cars they dont want a slow-piece-of-crap car they want power

  • when gas is $5, heck, maybe $6 a gallon, and when your driving a 15mpg muscle car everyday you will be thinking otherwise.

  • GM deserve what thy get we should not bale them out. GM new what we the people wonted but thy stayed with the cash cow SUV, Trucks, gas guzzling vehicles etc. were is the GM Hy-Wire automobile The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car, Electric autos?Thy new and stayed the course now we are balling them out that is crap. are we that stupid to keep given them money well never see!!!!!

  • If only GM would've logged into you tube and seen the first few comments maybe they wouldn't be bankrupt now. I have owned several GM cars and the quality has been horrific. Its not a matter of it but a matter of when they will go bankrupt

  • man this is visheis id love to have that whip

  • gm got bailed out the the US government. i love the interior of the car, the steering wheel is soo fancy looking. in the future, i think cars should be hybrids, but instead of using gasoline and electricity, they should use fuel cells for city/trafic, and ethanol for going on the highway for when u wanna go fast.

  • this is what GM should be doing!

  • GM SHALL SUCK satan's greedy and selfish COCK IN HELL FOREVER

  • GM does realize that see threw bumper would be an issue for ladies in skirts, or is that the plan?

  • i think you are missing the point of this car...

  • lol...you have a point there but then again, they are not known for their design

  • one word

    BANKRUPT !

  • too little. too late.

  • it looks like an airplane when you maneuver it.. but i think they should have invented a flying car instead.. the quickest way to reach your destination hehehe..

  • That's just what we need a bunch of red-necks with 'sky-rage'

    Can you imagine the sky full of tailgaters?

    They need to give some kind of intelligence test as a prerequisite for the driving test to keep the idiots off the roads.

    'Whats that fell in our back yard Ma' 'Nothn just old wider Johnson ran out of gas again'

  • You really hit the weak spot of the flying car there: - no fuel - no flight... until we have anti-gravity generators or something like that, I really doubt we will see flying cars any time soon... which by today's time frame looks like it won't happen - ever.

  • For $2,300 dollars buy a solar pannel system that will allow a person to charge their car for free after the initial cost of the system,that way not using the power

    grid, there are plenty of solutions

  • fuck the japs all the invention never even came from japan hybrids was invented here in america tested here in america turbo super charge europe i mean the testing done so they save money and put money on building better quilty cars.

  • That car is so boring inside

  • I think the interior is great! A car that is as open-looking as that must feel quite spectacular. Plus, mind you, this is a concept car.

  • Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality

  • I love Japan, and the Japanese Auto industry to this day is what it is because of American input, it's a fact and anyone in the industry older than 40 years old will know the guy and what he did for Japan, Dr Deming!

  • Chevy Volt is on the way

    In 3 years or less most new US cars will be moving to electric, either Battery hy-brid or fuel cell, bye bye oil and the cars will look slick unlike the prius.

  • how you know is in 3 years from now?, it could be in 10

  • punkedge1 Gude the USA is all about change, companies like nisson,toyota honda are companies that ezist because of the changes caused by the American Market place, The facts are that an American changed the Japanese automotive marketplace years ago and American invemtion and expertise will change the world market again

  • W. Edwards Deming is the father of the Japanese auto industry that exists today,he was from Iowa USA

  • bye bye power grid, hell it's in pretty bad shape as it is, wait until everybody's plugging their car in.

  • corndog251 For aprox $2,300 dollars buy a solar pannel system that will allow a person to charge their car for free after the initial cost of the system,that way not using the power grid, there are plenty of solutions

  • whats the top speed? 0-60 time??

  • your wrists would start aching

  • this was built in 2002 and will probly not go into production. they have had the knowledge to do it but there losses would be to great.

  • I am glad to see that the Car companies are actually doing.... something. Now all we need is for the Oil Companies to follow suit, and not try and keep us all under the gasoline crunch. This car, the sequel by GM and the FCX by honda are

  • Don't be fooled. You should watch "Who Killed The Electric Car?"

  • I did, i just want to have the hope that we get to see these cars on the road.

  • If the vehicle is environment friendly then that's great! The Philippines has SINAG - the first Philippine Solar-Powered Car. May more environment friendly cars be produced!

  • what a peice of shit.... .....old gas guzzlers are at least reliable...no elctronics.....no computer....and last 20 times longer....id take a Cuda/GTO over one of these peices of shit... lol one power short....one wire crossed and boom whole car shuts down doing 80 km /h in a tin can...Good game idiots

  • Idiot. You've made clear your understanding of technology. Any modern car on the road today is loaded with electronics, cabling, and a computer smarter than you by the looks. You don't see them shutting down at 80km/h. These cars also have the potential to out do any muscle car you can dream up simply because the elec. motors are in the wheels themselves and there are 4. Give it a proper power plant and you won't believe your eyes. Now go back to your cave and leave the rest of society alone.

  • lol.. right on Cobalt Blue.

  • Its true it is loaded with electronics but what he means is that because of the mechanical linkages, you can still operate today's vehicle. If you turn today's car off without removing the keys the car will still be able to turn and you will be able to control it, guiding it someplace safe. With The GM HY-WIRE the steering is strictly electrical not mechanical so if the power supply shuts down, everything shuts down. While he or she didn't need to be so vulgar, they have a point.

  • It depends if its electric assist power steering, or actual drive-by-wire. There are a lot of GM cars with electric assist power steering which is the same thing as normal hydraulic except the pump is replaced with a motor. If the system fails or car shuts down you can still turn the wheel.

  • doosierty, respectfully I still don't see his point. You'd have fail safes like routing some sort of emergency back up power to the system for a couple of minutes to enable a safe pull over. A fail safe system like that can be as redundant as you like. We are missing something else here, Short of a dead battery or alternator the statement is based on a catastrophic power failure you don't even get to see in existing cars let alone future ones.

  • the steering wheel can swap sides aswell which is really good becaus eif the driver is tired the passenger can then drive

  • i want one of those

  • I really want one of these! I'm learning to drive at the moment and this control system would make things so much easier!

  • anything that doesnt fund terrorists is a okay. Gasoline the terror

  • It does go kind of slow...which is a good thing cuz there would be less car wrecks if ppl couldn't drive 100 mph. I like the car-its a good idea.

    Global Warming has GOT to stop!

  • my bike runs faster..

  • i've heard it can go up to like 100 mph.

  • Cool car!

  • Absolutely beautiful sound.

  • we'll just take it from the ice cap

  • "nobody cares"

  • this car was on top gear and it ran on sea water....

  • They see me trollin'... They hatin'...

    Search around and you'll see this guy pasted this exact same post into tons of other videos. His profile background is pretty funny too.

  • your english is shit

  • Get rid of that high pitched whine in the cabin! Headache material after a decent drive on the highway.

  • Eat your nationalistic hyped-up shit - I know, I know, you learned from the best. ;)

  • why does this remind me of an delorean wagon?

  • This is very cool. However, tell me;

    Is there waste of water, or is it recyled? What happens to the water supply?

  • it goes into the air

  • what happens when the billions on this planet adopt these cars into our lives, and we quadruple our water usage....

    how much water will there be left?

  • I think water is considered a natural renewable resource, it doesn't just go away. If it did, we would have used it up already. It's like wind or solar energy.

  • well yes godwilling our atmosphere holds up, if not all the water vapor per say will escape, also take into accountability that water is a renewable resource however it is of limited renewability. Also in effect couldnt the water vapor just be recaptured and re used>?

    A

  • Good point. Hell if I know. All I do know is that America is going to hell if we don't reign in governmental controls. There will be no more money for science from our country.

    Check this out:

    video . google . com /videoplay?docid = 6732659166933078950&hl = en

  • so true the USA is ona very fast downward spiral.... Not the end of the world however the end of the world as we know it.

    your right smaller goverment with more control from the people

  • First off. When hydrogen is extracted from water you split two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Then you use the two hydrogen atoms (H^2) and burn it with one oxygen atom. There is no loss of atoms in the process. The only thing that is lost (it's actually not lost but that's another topic) is the energy that is used to split the hydrogen atoms from the oxygen atom. And we do have a great surplus of energy just being lost into space. The Sun.

  • God is only creating global warming because God realized that we were getting too advanced so he has to start us all over

  • what is this car powered by?

  • It runs on a Hydrogen fuel cell.

  • huh? this made no sence?

  • it was showing how the car is used. Its not petrol its a hydrogen fuel cell. It uses nuclear fusion to create tons of energy which drives the car forwards. The hydrogen comes from sea water, but scientists cant find a decent way to haul huge amounts of hydrogen round everywhere. Hydrogen cells are the future people. Sod solar and lithium-ion batteries: this is the future

  • er i thought it used electrolysis not nuclear fusion.

  • nope its defo fusion - i dint understand it either so i asked my physics tutor bout it. It creates water from the reaction inside a closed system vacuum (inside the cell) and gives off huge amounts of energy in the process. When they say it gives off water, the car can now recycle the water by adding salt to it and using electrolosis to get hydrogen from that. This way, we can make the hydrogen we need, and the only waste gas from the reaction is oxygen which we need anyway.

  • tell you the truth cars in other countries cost only a fraction that is made here in usa. but hey we make all that money and keep buying those expensive shit so whose to blame?

  • what?? 2 or 3 seconds after... crash!! and it did blow up

  • this is a really god car, i dont care if it's american japanese, who cares! what really matters is the technology

  • this car looks ugly as all hell and it sounds like a vaccum cleaner haha

  • GO USA AND THIS CAR SUCKS BALLLSSSSSS BESIDES THE BEST TRUSTED CAR IN TODAY 2007 are the USA ONES HAAAA

  • what are you talking about, haven't you seen the most reliable car list, notice how the Japanese are ahead of us.

    Honda

    Toyota

    Niassan

    Misubishi

    Saab

    Chrysler

    ford

    -YOUTALK-

  • Well maybe that fat ass should get some exercise

  • WTF did you just say vipper21d? rofl! Don't bother replying...I prolly couldn't read it anyways...

  • I don't think you can speak English, can you?

  • i shouldnt even reply to this old shit took a damn week to say somthin bitch

  • You got some issues Oh and american cars suck

  • WAT THE FUCK IS U SAYIN'!?!?!?!?!?!?

  • vipper21d go to fucking elementary school to learn fucking english i can understand special people (no offense) easier than you

    and if you're complaining about not fitting that fat ass of yours inside the car, lay off the mcdonalds once and eat something not fill with grease

  • wow, i like it i want it

  • The hywire is a lie. GM just finished crushing oil-free cars, sold control of the batteries needed for all EVs to Chevron, and refused to sell the EV1 to willing buyers. Now, GM lacks customers, and deserves it.

  • wthell GM is know for its nice cars not this crappy piece of thing i know how it works dont tell me but all cars work better with engines not some hydrogen bullshit i hope gm loses the blue prints and start recreating all the muscle cars  american muscle for life

  • electrical motors have far more torque and more "muscle" than internal combustion engines for the same power consumed. Problem is batteries which will be solved by nano tech materials in a decade or so.

    Check out phoenix motorcars electric SUV that's coming out in this year.

  • ok but dude why do they gotta go with sucha ugly desing and cmn no sound wtf i gotta solution for global warming but i aint gonna tell cuz im trying to get the funding to make it since im still in high school and i cant get a job so i am so against this bitch ugly car

  • If you can't even manage to use periods or form a complete thought, I highly doubt you're some genius thats going to solve global warming

  • i never said i was, i was just interpreting the fact that it is such an ugly dessing

    look dude go away ur wasting ur time

  • crappy controls, and a crash in that thing would be ugly. P.O.S.

  • wow. The parachute on the back of that was cool. Didn't know they made that.

  • Surely, there is a place for quiet, clean cars like this for those who do not need to tear down the road at breakneck speeds. I hope those who like this car are writing to GM and asking when they will produce it. Probably 2050 by the time they get done procrastinating.

  • l'm with you nh, l can't wait to get my hands on one, the sooner the better. But until GM or another company brings one out, we will have to persist with what we've got. lnternal combustion, which most of us have, or use, and maybe HHO to boost the efficiency of our fuel. Check the search on U tube, Mad Scientist, Sid Young, Garth2. There are things that we can do right now. The future is looking very bright.

  • Oyeah

  • Hydrogen car development? Well it's an excellent way to stop the masses from panicking, while the rest of us prepare carefully for the the post oil age. Even if you ignore the fact that hydrogen has to be created by burning fossil fuels, what good would a hydrogen car be when the looting starts?

  • how could ppl be more stupid than this ?!