How does Hydrogen Gas pass through a fuel cell, cracked into H2O to generate water to create electricity? Why don't you just use water directly to generate electricity? Why spend Billions of dollars creating hydrogen to turn it back into water? Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology is to be examined.
@heartlessvietboy ...and how exactly are you going to generate energy from water? Hydrogen is used because you can obtain it by electrolisis from regular water, and you can later burn it, exhaust is only water... it's not hard to see it's a convenient and clean way to store energy...
By running it through a propeller to get a magnetic turbine spinning. Hydrogen is used because its an abundant fuel source, not because we can obtain it through electrolysis. We can store many other fuel sources conveniently also.
Hydrogen is ineffizient to generate, store and transport. Today most of the hydrogen is generated from oil based sources. Maybe hydrogen technology is good for the oil companies, but it's bad for renewable technologies and nature.
Simple solution: buy a HDO (hydrogen on demand) system; it's already been done! It's not rocket science; it's called electrolysis. You can buy HHO units for welding torches from China (of course). Build your own: freewaterenergy . com
I don't understand why people are all hyped up about EVs. They have no range, practicality, or future in this world. Hydrogen is the way to go and Honda did it. Way to go Honda, now mass produce it and send it everywhere. Oh right...the country will never go for that because we are too conservative.
Why this car is not production on the all world?! why?! this is the best car on the world! he saved earth and money.... GO HONDA!! We need this car everywhere !!
They forgot to mention that today hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels (methane). And extracting hydrogen out of water (breaking oxygen-hydrogen bonds) needs in practice more energy than you will get from the reaction of oxygen and hydrogen in the fuel cell.
Another way to exploit the poor (although with big wallets) and stupid environmentalists.
I'm all for these hydrogen powered cars and everything. They seem like a really good idea but what makes me sad is the thought of supercars disappearing. Corvettes, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and everything. Will those go away? If they don't they, won't make those beautiful noises and roars they make now. We need to still use oil for those kinds of cars.
@geckoisgiko Your missing the point, we can now drive with ev,hydrogen,cng,etc. Which preserves the fuel for the 68' Camaro ss/396's of the future, its a win-win !
its an electric car not hydrogen powered. I read about this a while ago and the only thing the volt has over this car is that you can plug the volt in. You still need to refuel with this this. Unless you have your own hydrogen gas creator like some people do as it is not hard to generate.
for about the last 20 years promotional car videos always have loud shitty heavy metal music in the back ground. It's insulting that they think we'll like that.
Maybe if hybrids weren't so ugly.....I'd buy one. I mean just because it uses alternative engine doesn't mean it should have ugly alternative looks!!!! Come on Honda....just make it a little more powerful and a lot more attractive.
1. They just need to find a cheaper cataylist for the electrolosis process to be cheaper. Rather than using Platinum!!
2. And not use to much fossil fuels to mass prodcue the hydrogen.. as this is the case at this moment.
Solution; A car that has an electroliser to PRODUCE hydrogen (Solar/Hydro/Wind), and then also a fuel cell to turn it into electricty (Kinetic {Motion}). Sorted.
Where do they get all the hydrogen to run these cars? Oh right, by burning fossil fuels. You guys are getting suckered into thinking your saving the world, but these greedy environmentalists are just cooking up another ploy to steal your money.
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.
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.
the thing that amases me is the in home refueling station! that uses existing natural gas to produce hydrogen. Right fuel cell technology is expensive to produce. but in the future once it is mass produced. companies will find ways to cut costs just like they have done with the regular gasoline automobile. Honda is way ahead of the game interms of innovation. Every other car company i see has mockups and concepts. But none of them are on the road like this one.
@youfja the world will run out of oil eventually. this car will save corvettes will save ferraris will save cobras. this is hella cool and if you see a veteran driving a honda it isnt sad because i gaurentee you have something in your house made in chinda dumbass. gm and ford will catch on to hydrogen cars. you can drive farther save money and keep oil for the real cars.
@youfja More like keep ur dumbass American cars with big dummy buttons for dummy americans hahaha! Japs are way awsome and i'd buy a jap car over any other car any day!
the truth of the matter is that fuel cell cars are actually hell expensive (100.000$ per car) and the technology is way more complex in terms of the car itsself and infrastructure. The only way it makes sense at all is generating the hydrogen using renewables and no fossil fuels. Still, this might develop and get better but battery powerd cars and WAY cheaper and you can easily overcome range limitations and charging times by using battery swap stations like they do in Denmark and Isreal
plus, a grid for electricity already exists, a infrastructure for hydrogen doesn't. This might be a solution for remote areas where batteries can't provide the range, yet.
The gas could be generated on location using electrictity from renewables but as I said, it's WAY more expensive.
@hotcuts6064 ??? hydroelectricity is electricity generated using kinetic energy of water (like water falling from a dam) its got nothing to do with hydrogen
We should be able to make a car that uses all sorts of energy sources - solar panels on the roof, wind in the air vents (like a RAT on a plane), hydrogen fuel cell, kinetic absorbtion from braking like on the Prius... can't we harness all sorts of wasted energy and put them to use?
Solar power sounds great and the greenies love to promote it. The problem is solar power is weak. Only small amounts of power are generated from very large solar panels. To power the U.S.A. with only solar energy, we would have to replace 100% of our farm land with solar panels to supply the amount of energy we require.
Speak, Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. All plant life lives off carbon dioxide! Humans live off O2 is that also a pollutant? Is nitrogen a pollutant? Carbon monoxide is a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is essential for plant and human life! BTY Al Gore is a lyre.
Speak, Your comments have changed from producing 150 gallons of hydrogen in a half hour to 150 litters in a week with a small solar panel! And no I do not think you can produce even 150 litters of hydrogen in a week with a 12 volt battery a 9 plate hydrogen generator and 400 watt solar panel! Also, it may be rainy or cloudy all week.
Now factor in that one gallon of crude oil only produces about a HALF of one gallon of gas (not to mention the amount of energy wasted drilling, pumping, transporting/shipping and refining those 2 gallons of oil, just to make 1 gallon of gas). Wasted energy? If you sit down and look at the air pollution caused, an average car emits about 20 pounds of carbon dioxide for every US gallon of gas used. If you sat down and did the math, an average car creates about 8 metric tonnes of pollution a year!
I understand that you're crying about a small tiny amount of "inefficiency" in using CLEAN SOLAR & CLEAN HYDROGEN and crying about how a little bit of "renewable energy" is wasted by converting solar energy and water into hydrogen gas, but have you ever factored in how much energy is spent (and wasted) on mining for coal, drilling for oil, refining it, using NG or just the cost of removing the carbon footprint or the pollution that is caused from FOSSIL fuels from the environment?
I understand that energy is being wasted (SOLAR energy) by converting water into Hydrogen gas (via electrolysis), and while I agree that it may be inefficient (to convert water into Hydrogen using electric), hydrogen gas can be safely stored, processed and contained. There is more to than just the efficiency of one step of the process. It needs to function as a system. If you can use solar energy to recharge the battery, & store the hydrogen produced, you are creating a renewable energy system.
Conservatively, do you not believe that you could produce 150-210 liters of Hydrogen Gas in a WEEK? (just using a 12V deep cell battery, a 400 watt solar panel, and 8 hours a day of solar energy, a small HHO generator, and water for 7 days) That's still 30-42 gallons of Hydrogen Gas in a week. At 68mpg, do you plan on driving more than 2,040-2,856 miles per week? Just be realistic, you're producing more hydrogen than you could possibly even use driving the car.
Who said anything about perpetual motion you moron? Listen, a Honda FCX only has a 47 gallon storage tank. Do you NOT believe that a 400 watt solar panel can charge a 12V battery with 8 hours of sunlight? Do you not believe that a fully charged 12V battery could produce 30 liters of Hydrogen Gas in an hour? (and shut off) Do you not believe 8 hours of sunlight the following day would fully charge the 12V battery? Do you believe that fully charged battery could produce ~30 liters? (and shut off)
Speak, If you can produce 150 gallons of hydrogen in a half hour with a 12 volt battery and a hydrogen generator and a small solar panel, then do it and become rich! If not stop talking shit and try to engineer something easier like a paper airplane or a bomb.
Speak, you are a retard! I never said a solar panel produces hydrogen! I know hydrogen can be generated also! I also know it takes more energy to produce hydrogen than the energy the hydrogen wil produce! If you can't understand that then go away!
Hawker, a solar panel doesn't produce any Hydrogen you moron! An HHO Generator is what produce hydrogen (it splits water into Hydrogen Gas + Oxygen through a process called Electrolysis). A standard HHO Generator can be powered either by 120V or 12V electrical current. If you had half of a brain, then you'd know that. Yes, you can power an HHO Generator using a simple 12V Deep Cell battery. The HHO Generator turns on, fills a hydrogen storage tank (or car), and shuts off.
Speak, You need a massive solar panel and multiple 12 volt batteries to produce the amount of hydrogen you are talking about. 1 12 volt battery and a small solar panel will get you a very small amount of hydrogen and a dead battery, thats all.
speak, I was referring to a hydrogen generator dumb ass. There is no such thing as perpetual motion. Have someone smarter than you explain my previous comment to you so you can understand it! Or put your engineering degree to good work and blow yourself up.
Hawkermustang, do you believe that a house can run on SOLAR energy? (and is that your idea of "perpetual motion" you moron?) Listen, a 12V Deep Cell battery is what powers the HHO Generator (thus converting water + an electrolyte into Hydrogen Gas and Oxygen). Oxygen is released into the atmosphere, the Hydrogen is stored in a tank. Do you believe this can be done, or are you too stupid to even believe in Electrolysis? The solar panel is just used to keep the battery fully charged.
Hawkermustang, quit being ignorant and do a simple YouTube search on "HHO Generator" or "HHO generator 25 liters per minute". If you don't seem to believe that you can use 12V electrical current to split water (with a teaspoon of baking soda as electrolyte) into hydrogen gas, and oxygen (through a process known as Electrolysis) then you're dumber than I thought.
speakn, You claim to be an engineer and you claim that a 12 volt battery and small solar panel will generate 150 gallons of hydrogen in 30 minutes. That would be a perpetual motion machine and there is no such thing! The fact is it takes more input energy to create hydrogen than the output energy created from the hydrogen. Try not to be ignorant.
Do you know how stupid you sound? No moron, the hydrogen generator generates the Hydrogen gas (you've never heard of an HHO generator)? Are you really this incredibly stupid? Yes, you can build (or even buy) a simple HHO generator, and yes it does run on 12V electricity (a standard deep cell 12V battery). Brainiac, you're not running the HHO generator 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You only use it to fill/recharge a storage tank. The solar panel is just used to charge/recharge the 12V battery.
Hawkermustang, I understand that you're not an engineer, but try not to show off your complete ignorance. If you can't figure out how to create Hydrogen gas, then do a search on "HHO Generator 9 plate" and there is a nice video of a 9 year old child (who certainly isn't an engineer) producing 2 Liters a minute of hydrogen gas just using $34 worth of stainless steel wallplates, some marine expoxy and a sheet of acrylic. Try not to be ignorant.
You are an engineer? Well I guess that makes me a rocket scientist. lol You need to stop watching stupid shit on the net and pretending to be an expert on subjects you really know nothing about.
I think electric and hydrogen cars is the future. You don't need a dirty powerplant to the electric cars. Use renewable energy to them. In the future we probably get Fusion power plant. Then we get so much electricity so we drowned.
Now I want Honda to work with Holden to provide Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engines for their Cars specially the Holden SS and SV6 cause those cars are really nice in design I just like them. Shame Holden isn't 100% Australian anymore i think it's partly owned by General Motors America. And Honda should make that Technology available for their Garden Maintence Hardware eg Ride on Lawn mower. What sort of water can it take or does it take Hydrogen gas?
I find it funny that there is a huge uproar and demand for vehicles like this- that are inexpensive, capable and produce absolutely no emissions- and then when it's actually invented, people complain that it isn't cost effective or that it's part of some huge conspiracy. Good grief, the human race just can't win, can it?
I'm not a huge Honda fan as I think they're overpriced and not too great to look at, but I really like this FCX. Very exciting. It's a pretty sexy shape and I love the dark cherry color. The idea of a quiet car that gets 68mpg with only water vapor as exhaust is simply amazing and so exciting for our future. I can't wait to see what's to come!
If you take into consideration that the earth is 80% water, and understood how much water evaporates (from the ocean) on a single day, even with everyone in the whole world using cars that run completely on hydrogen/water for 20 full years it would still be less water vapor than the amount of water that evaporates from the oceans in ONE single day. Yet, we don't see huge global floods, just because water evaporates.
Do you have any idea how much water evaporates on a daily basis from our oceans and our fresh water lakes? Water goes up, and water comes down on a constant basis. Nope, even with 30+ million cars releasing water vapor in a single city it wouldn't harm the environment at all, nor would the rainfall do much of anything other than water your grass, but most jet-stream currents would move the moist air away anyways, so it's highly unlikely the water would even come back down over land.
As an engineer, I can tell you that this is NOT rocket science. All you need is an extra 12V car battery, a small hydrogen generator, a 5 gallon sealed water container. The hydrogen generator can kick on and off (to refuel/recharge the hydrogen gas storage tank) as necessary. It can do this anytime while driving or while parked. (A car alternator can recharge the extra car battery while the car is running, and a solar panel can trickle charge the extra battery while parked in the sun).
this doesnt use a battery it just generates the power when and where it needs it which is far better as there is a limit to how much use and recharging a battery can take
Keep in mind that the FCX has a car stereo and an Air Conditioner, and BOTH use 50+ times more electricity than a small hydrogen generator (electrolysis). We're not trying to put a man on the moon, but just a separate 12V car battery, and a small hydrogen generator could produce about 150+ gallons of hydrogen gas in less than a half hour (using a standard 12V battery). All you need is a small solar panel to "trickle charge" the 12V battery to keep the battery fully charged.
speak, You don't know what you are talking about. A 12 volt battery and a small solar panel connected to a hydrogen generator will generate 150 gallons of hydrogen in 1/2 hours? LOL Put the crack pipe down, that shit will generate zero hydrogen in a half hour!
It requires EXTREMELY little electricity to separate Hydrogen and Oxygen. Very little, almost nothing. Go spend $34 and buy yourself a 12V car battery, and 5 or 6 stainless steel wall plates, and space the wall plates about 1/8" apart (with plastic washers), and add about a 1/4 spoon of baking soda and drop it into a 1 gallon bucket of water, and see how quickly you can make pure hydrogen. Electrolysis splits the water into pure Hydrogen & Oxygen. This is not rocket science.
Oil and NG companies have deep pockets and they spend all their money on silly campaign funds, to fight off "green" technologies such as Hydrogen. Oil Companies do NOT want people driving cars on rain water (for free), it would kill off the Oil Industry, and Hydrogen Gas can be made for about 2.4 cents a gallon, and you can make about 150 gallons from about 3 gallons of rain water. If Honda added an onboard Hydrogen Electrolysis Generator (that runs off 12V battery) the car could run on water.
speakntruth, no, big oil wants hydrogen powered cars because they will make the hydrogen from natural gas. This is the cheapest way to make hydrogen. Making it from water uses way too much electricity.
Get your head around this: they provide a product we want, and we pay for it. It's capitalism, and it works. If we want something else, we'll buy it. We want hydrocarbon fuels, and they put the money out for the infrastructure to get us what we ask for.
And, unlike charging stations and the like, you can supplement your NG tank with those little propane bottles Coleman sells. We get all of our gas domestically, not imported.
@Kethtgi that is interesting I am actually have my money on a wind powered car. It may not be very possible at this time but in the future hopefully it will be more possible. :)
actually, they use a fuel cell which does not use compression or combustion. You can however run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen, but its a very different process.
well, not exactly it doesn't use an internal combustion engine...
you're half way there, it generates electricity to turn the crankshaft, internal combustion engines cause explosions, a much more primitive concept for a drive train...
Honda are my new favorite car manufacturer... they've saved the world, or they're going to... toyota released a huge con-job with the prius and battery opperated electric cars are heaps of shit...
Hydrogen vehicles are the future! Hydrogen vehicles could have onboard "hydrogen generators" that could convert 5 gallons of water into about 14 gallons of hydrogen. You could easily have a vehicle that runs 100% on water. Plus Hydrogen Generators could be sold for about $1,800 that could plug into a standard electrical outlet, and connect to a water faucet and produce Hydrogen for about 3 cents per gallon. The Oil Companies are angry, but hydrogen is the future!
why don't the oil companies change to become hydrogen companies? one thing we must concede is that the decalination for all the sea-water to make the hydrogen could be an issue but it's still nothing compared to the damage that fossil fuels make...
Electric is NOT the way to go. Here's why. The nice clean electricity that powers your car comes from the big, dirty powerplant that provides all of that allegedly clean electricity. The carbon footprint from the car is offset, not removed. Also, let's drive a hybrid from San Francisco to LA. There will be at least one recharge along the way, adding hours and hours to the drive. It may be the future, but that future is a long way off.
you do know that most hydrogen nowadays is made from oil/earth gas?
and if it's made from water you need an awful lot of electricity to convert it, why not focus on producing clean electricity and then use it in a >90% efficient electric motor instead of losing much energy in the various conversion processes (hydrogen generation, compression, hydrogen to electricity with a fuel cell)?
You sound extremely ignorant, uses almost no electricity at all to produce a few thousand gallons of Hydrogen gas. Just take a simple 12 volt car battery, and a few stainless steel wall plates, and you'll see how extremely easy it is to separate water in to pure Hydrogen Gas and pure oxygen (H2O is nothing more than 2 atoms of hydrogen, and 1 atom of Oxygen). Get yourself a cheap 12V solar panel (to recharge the 12V battery) and you now have an endless supply of hydrogen gas.
if you guys do ur research u will learn that there are 2 ways to make hydrogen. the easiest and most popular way creates a lot of carbon pollution thus not solving the pollution problem. plus if your hydrogen car breaks down fixing it is a huge task itself. ever thought of piercing ur pressurized hydrogen tank in a bad accident? the future is not and never will be hydrogen. the future is electric cars for city drivers and improved hybrids for everyone else
Clearly if they have the technology to do it then i think car makers should stop using petrol or diesel engines. They should switch to hydrogen because it can be done . And before everyone starts to critizise me about there being hardly any hydrogen filling stations well they big oil companies can start making alot more money on hydrogen then oil. Shell have already managed to in california ive seen a hydrogen pump in a filling staion. Whats stoping everyone to switch to hydrogen?
Also: the cold weather states could be a problem for current hydrogen cars, only testing will tell. IF so.. midwestern and northerners will remain using gas. I doubt it will be any different than trying to start a chevy v8 at -8 degrees. I used a electric blanket made for engines to keep the engine warm over night, I see little difference in Gas engine in cold weather or electric/hydrogen system.
I'm so tired of hearing about the infrastructure problem. I've watched crews throw up a filling station in 2 weeks here in Texas. How long to dig out 2 or 3 tanks and replace them and the pumps above? 2 or 3 days. The problem is American car producers are in cahoots with big oil and the japs and germans are not. Over here Big Oil (Rockefellars)
are trying to figure out how to monopolize this Hydrogen stuff or at least minimize, bad mouth, etc. to curb switching over to hydrogen.
its an honest good faith attempt in advertisement here .... I like the honda motor and they are in the game... thinking like survivors ... leaving a legacy worth inheritance... just go find a dealer and look under the hood ...read the manual & take one for a drive... I want someone to preformance test these vehicles in 15 degrees and below 6" or more of sleet and snow ... it will make people more convinced and they will want to know about the tires... they need snow tires
What is different in this case? Time will tell I suppose by one of two trhings will happen. History will repeat itself OR investors (corps.) will make hydrogen as pricy as the fuel we use now and impossible or illegal to make at home (should you want to venture that way).I
ts kinda like the 1st diesel were invented to run on bio-diesel. Tractors were built this way so farmers would grown and produce their own bio-fuel to run the machine...where did you go wrong.
3 year lease only? GM did the same thing in the 90s with the electric car at the time (can't remember the name) and people loved it. The gov even promised that a certain percentage of the vehs on the road in cali were going to have to be other then petrol users (elec, hydro, etc etc) by a set date but GM took the cars back at the end of the lease and scrapped them and cali ''changed it minds'' about that ground breaking progressive new law.
What is different in this case? Time will tell I suppose by one of two trhings will happen. History will repeat itself OR investors (corps.) will make hydrogen as pricy as the fuel we use now and impossible or illegal to make at home (should you want to venture that way).
BMW has been experimenting with Hydrogen cars since the 90s (had a working model in germany in 98) but the draw back was the infrastructure prob. with refuelling stations.
Idk if I agree with that. With gas the prices were high because of supposed demand, but considering that Hydrogen is our world's most abundant resource, meaning we can never run out of it, what would be their excuse then ??
3 year lease only? GM did the same thing in the 90s with the electric car at the time (can't remember the name) and people loved it. The gov even promised that a certain percentage of the vehs on the road in cali were going to have to be other then petrol users (elec, hydro, etc etc) by a set date but GM took the cars back at the end of the lease and scrapped them and cali ''changed it minds'' about that ground breaking progressive new law.
I like the design of this car a lot. Looks kinda like a Civic, but way cooler. Too bad it can only be leased.
rnorred1986 4 days ago
Omg, what is amazing on quiet car ? Fuck that.
misakNFS 1 month ago 2
how much does it cost Honda to build each one of these? I thought i remembered a figure of around $86k being thrown around
stiv625 1 month ago
How does Hydrogen Gas pass through a fuel cell, cracked into H2O to generate water to create electricity? Why don't you just use water directly to generate electricity? Why spend Billions of dollars creating hydrogen to turn it back into water? Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology is to be examined.
heartlessvietboy 2 months ago
@heartlessvietboy ...and how exactly are you going to generate energy from water? Hydrogen is used because you can obtain it by electrolisis from regular water, and you can later burn it, exhaust is only water... it's not hard to see it's a convenient and clean way to store energy...
ST1886 2 months ago
By running it through a propeller to get a magnetic turbine spinning. Hydrogen is used because its an abundant fuel source, not because we can obtain it through electrolysis. We can store many other fuel sources conveniently also.
heartlessvietboy 2 months ago
i know that there's a car that can run on water, but that will cause a big problem in our water supply so compressed hydrogen all the way!
the only problem is the price of this vehicle to make
WhatThePresidentSays 2 months ago
Hydrogen is ineffizient to generate, store and transport. Today most of the hydrogen is generated from oil based sources. Maybe hydrogen technology is good for the oil companies, but it's bad for renewable technologies and nature.
gerbre1 2 months ago
@gerbre1 Check up on the Ecat system. That won't be a problem anymore. NASA is calling it #1 green technology. Find out why.
0932486509 2 months ago
Hydrogen is the way of the future not electric vehicles, they're more of a gap
Ge0vone 3 months ago
PTB (powers that be) strike again:
1) create a vehicle which runs on hydrogen.
2) build hydrogen stations around the country.
3) distribute hydrogen fuel for FREE for now.
4) charge anything you want in the future.
HINT: hydrogen comes from H2O (water)
Simple solution: buy a HDO (hydrogen on demand) system; it's already been done! It's not rocket science; it's called electrolysis. You can buy HHO units for welding torches from China (of course). Build your own: freewaterenergy . com
yhenry77 3 months ago
Beautiful car! Cute playful "face" at 5:05 as if by saying "buy me and enjoy". ^^
DTS12250 3 months ago
Personally, I really like the design of this car. It has real presence on the road and the headlights are looking real aggressive.
nick7sikkema 4 months ago
I don't understand why people are all hyped up about EVs. They have no range, practicality, or future in this world. Hydrogen is the way to go and Honda did it. Way to go Honda, now mass produce it and send it everywhere. Oh right...the country will never go for that because we are too conservative.
JMCporsche 4 months ago
the 2008-present Honda FCX Clarity is assembled in
Takanezawa, Japan
Annihilator1111 5 months ago
Why this car is not production on the all world?! why?! this is the best car on the world! he saved earth and money.... GO HONDA!! We need this car everywhere !!
misiekspox 5 months ago
I really hope they make a hybrid or gasoline powered I4 FCX
UnboundLegend 5 months ago
What a fat slob of a man
brantk81 5 months ago
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They forgot to mention that today hydrogen is produced from fossil fuels (methane). And extracting hydrogen out of water (breaking oxygen-hydrogen bonds) needs in practice more energy than you will get from the reaction of oxygen and hydrogen in the fuel cell.
Another way to exploit the poor (although with big wallets) and stupid environmentalists.
niilatfan 6 months ago
what is the top speed of this car? can u tell me?
stanyclaret 6 months ago
@stanyclaret 160km/h
misiekspox 5 months ago
It finally happened. Honda have dropped the FCX Clarity program and have started making battery electric prototypes like all the other car makers.
bored1980 6 months ago
Three most advanced cars ever: 1886 Benz Motorwagen(for being the first car ever).
'55-'75 Citroen DS(For advancing safety, building materials, suspension, controls, mechanics, looks, and charm) .
2007 Honda FCX Clarity(For being the first production hydrogen fuel-cell car).
LeBartman 6 months ago
i'd take a hemi cuda over this piece of shit!!!
Tbolt1000TForLife 7 months ago
I'm all for these hydrogen powered cars and everything. They seem like a really good idea but what makes me sad is the thought of supercars disappearing. Corvettes, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and everything. Will those go away? If they don't they, won't make those beautiful noises and roars they make now. We need to still use oil for those kinds of cars.
geckoisgiko 8 months ago
@geckoisgiko Your missing the point, we can now drive with ev,hydrogen,cng,etc. Which preserves the fuel for the 68' Camaro ss/396's of the future, its a win-win !
raiders1ish 6 months ago
@raiders1ish good point
geckoisgiko 6 months ago
Should of been the next Gen Honda Civic
mes59 8 months ago
its an electric car not hydrogen powered. I read about this a while ago and the only thing the volt has over this car is that you can plug the volt in. You still need to refuel with this this. Unless you have your own hydrogen gas creator like some people do as it is not hard to generate.
jspecaspec23 9 months ago
well i guess there not in production because this video was in 2007
nickman888 10 months ago
Hallo
troelsfiig 10 months ago
'Real' super Honda
troelsfiig 10 months ago
Engine kind of sounds like a turbine when he gave it hydrogen if you will!! It's awsome and I love this car to bad I don't live in Cali!!!
GBraidi78 10 months ago
great...I want more these cars..nafta will be gone soon
ClockworkAnimal1 11 months ago
Honda will always be #1 in technology.
Solumic 11 months ago 11
for about the last 20 years promotional car videos always have loud shitty heavy metal music in the back ground. It's insulting that they think we'll like that.
sebwingfield 11 months ago
Once cars with this kind've technolgy can be sold for around 10k, that is when I am giong to be optimistic..
Well, I suppouse perhaps wait until people are selling it second hand :P
thefakeyeti 1 year ago
It's funny how much hype the volt is getting. The thing is already obsolete.
MisterMortombachman 1 year ago
Maybe if hybrids weren't so ugly.....I'd buy one. I mean just because it uses alternative engine doesn't mean it should have ugly alternative looks!!!! Come on Honda....just make it a little more powerful and a lot more attractive.
ct9854 1 year ago
@ct9854 It still looks a hell of alot better than a Prius to me!
Check out the Ford Fusion Hybrid. It's one of the few thats not designed horribly.
braydenmartindale 1 year ago
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KeepingModern 1 year ago
1. They just need to find a cheaper cataylist for the electrolosis process to be cheaper. Rather than using Platinum!!
2. And not use to much fossil fuels to mass prodcue the hydrogen.. as this is the case at this moment.
Solution; A car that has an electroliser to PRODUCE hydrogen (Solar/Hydro/Wind), and then also a fuel cell to turn it into electricty (Kinetic {Motion}). Sorted.
mattheep12 1 year ago
im gonna install this system in my hatchback! i hate the vtec and racing shit. i just want my car to run extremely clean.
45Mang 1 year ago
Speaking of "really quiet", you could have dumped the stupid guitar "music". How juvenile.
sidomitch 1 year ago
global warming.. LMFAO!
MegaHolymoly 1 year ago
@MegaHolymoly
How much oil do you think is left?
JeremyFuhenstasser 1 year ago
FUCK PRIUS! GO FCX!!!!
raykrislianggi 1 year ago 62
@raykrislianggi lol very lol hihihihi
MrRaffa112 5 months ago
haha the earth can be in a better place, we are the ones that could be in a better place
treyjohn18 1 year ago
fuck hybrids
LordRhyme 1 year ago
Where do they get all the hydrogen to run these cars? Oh right, by burning fossil fuels. You guys are getting suckered into thinking your saving the world, but these greedy environmentalists are just cooking up another ploy to steal your money.
dickenstom 1 year ago
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mattheep12 1 year ago
Cool looking car.
Hotrodrogers91 1 year ago
By the time these things come down in price and have the infrastructure in place they'll be obsolete due to the plug in electric car
eldictator1 1 year ago
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MyRepresentativeOrg 1 year ago
How much does it cost to run the cars? where is the cost comparison between H2 and gasoline?
Fussinated 1 year ago
@Fussinated i watch the top gear review and they said that the fuel prices are the same
jondoc1 1 year ago
@jondoc1 Thanks. Actually I looked it up on the google and yes they are about the same.
Fussinated 1 year ago
the thing that amases me is the in home refueling station! that uses existing natural gas to produce hydrogen. Right fuel cell technology is expensive to produce. but in the future once it is mass produced. companies will find ways to cut costs just like they have done with the regular gasoline automobile. Honda is way ahead of the game interms of innovation. Every other car company i see has mockups and concepts. But none of them are on the road like this one.
EpiDemic117 1 year ago
The Honda FCX Clarity ! Truely a car for 2020 and beyond ! Honda should build the fuel refilling stations with other car makers !
davis3001 1 year ago
3:05 Did you see that thing pull????? damn
lawnkit22 1 year ago
ile102 keep your Dumbass out of American and go back to Japan
youfja 1 year ago
i can't wait to get this car.
prosperabovehaters 1 year ago
Keep them in Japan
Dumping grounds are coming to a close
Ask Toyota,America has better................
You ever see a WW 11 vet driving a Honda
I have, it's sad..But you kids think this is an America car....
youfja 1 year ago
@youfja the world will run out of oil eventually. this car will save corvettes will save ferraris will save cobras. this is hella cool and if you see a veteran driving a honda it isnt sad because i gaurentee you have something in your house made in chinda dumbass. gm and ford will catch on to hydrogen cars. you can drive farther save money and keep oil for the real cars.
yoGOES 1 year ago
@youfja More like keep ur dumbass American cars with big dummy buttons for dummy americans hahaha! Japs are way awsome and i'd buy a jap car over any other car any day!
xile102 1 year ago
It's so cool to drive it. No shifting, you just hears the electric motor winding up when speeding. So smooth.
KrykoStorm 1 year ago
When will this totally awesome car be out for EVERYBODY to use?!
i'd really like to know. Also, how much will it cost?
johnson1095 1 year ago
the truth of the matter is that fuel cell cars are actually hell expensive (100.000$ per car) and the technology is way more complex in terms of the car itsself and infrastructure. The only way it makes sense at all is generating the hydrogen using renewables and no fossil fuels. Still, this might develop and get better but battery powerd cars and WAY cheaper and you can easily overcome range limitations and charging times by using battery swap stations like they do in Denmark and Isreal
ultimazer1 1 year ago
plus, a grid for electricity already exists, a infrastructure for hydrogen doesn't. This might be a solution for remote areas where batteries can't provide the range, yet.
The gas could be generated on location using electrictity from renewables but as I said, it's WAY more expensive.
ultimazer1 1 year ago
this is good but most gas stations don't have a hydrogen pump.
CPJapan 2 years ago
its only available in california right now, they have them there.
onthetableproduction 2 years ago
o ive never seen one in illinois.
CPJapan 2 years ago
water + hydroelectricity = free hydrogen gas
hotcuts6064 2 years ago
@hotcuts6064
yeah sure, but hydroELECTRICITY needs energy mate, aint free.
Oil is used to produce electricity.
Delphii69 2 years ago
@Delphii69 no the term hydroelectricity itself means that its generated using water....ie dams, waterfalls.....u really need to read a bit more
herambbarve 1 year ago
@hotcuts6064 ??? hydroelectricity is electricity generated using kinetic energy of water (like water falling from a dam) its got nothing to do with hydrogen
herambbarve 1 year ago
Very cool car, definitely better than batteries as you can just fill it up rather than waiting hours to recharge.
Honda is so innovative, Honda FTW.
G1NZOU 2 years ago
car is sweet but i hate the new front grill on hondas it could look way better, i m sure its a sweet car but the douche drivin it made it sound bad.
tomvee22 2 years ago
top gear did a way better review of this....
my ride come on i really like you guys
but this was so blunt
CakeS2k 2 years ago 21
We should be able to make a car that uses all sorts of energy sources - solar panels on the roof, wind in the air vents (like a RAT on a plane), hydrogen fuel cell, kinetic absorbtion from braking like on the Prius... can't we harness all sorts of wasted energy and put them to use?
ianfortepiano 2 years ago
i would like 1... but if a Fd2 or Dc5 shape :)
bbbd 2 years ago
The way of the future? Only time will tell. Shocking what a sess-pool for know-it-all day dreamers youTube comments section is..
1tristan1henderson 2 years ago
Solar power sounds great and the greenies love to promote it. The problem is solar power is weak. Only small amounts of power are generated from very large solar panels. To power the U.S.A. with only solar energy, we would have to replace 100% of our farm land with solar panels to supply the amount of energy we require.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
No harm in collecting some of it to add to your energy supply, it's clean and completely free after all.
You can use it to augment whatever supply you're using.
G1NZOU 2 years ago
Speak, Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. All plant life lives off carbon dioxide! Humans live off O2 is that also a pollutant? Is nitrogen a pollutant? Carbon monoxide is a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is essential for plant and human life! BTY Al Gore is a lyre.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
go to school...take a chemistry class please!
"Humans live off O2 is that also a pollutant" is one of the dumbest statements I've seen on here
dreamexecution 2 years ago
That was a sarcastic question that went over your head I think.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
sure it was...
dreamexecution 2 years ago
The atmosphere that we need to survive is a balance of different molecules.
Too much of anything changes the balance and causes a chain reaction that makes life difficult for our children.
Just because the atmosphere changes naturally over the centuries, there is no reason to hasten the process and make life difficult for ourselves.
G1NZOU 2 years ago
Speak, Your comments have changed from producing 150 gallons of hydrogen in a half hour to 150 litters in a week with a small solar panel! And no I do not think you can produce even 150 litters of hydrogen in a week with a 12 volt battery a 9 plate hydrogen generator and 400 watt solar panel! Also, it may be rainy or cloudy all week.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
Now factor in that one gallon of crude oil only produces about a HALF of one gallon of gas (not to mention the amount of energy wasted drilling, pumping, transporting/shipping and refining those 2 gallons of oil, just to make 1 gallon of gas). Wasted energy? If you sit down and look at the air pollution caused, an average car emits about 20 pounds of carbon dioxide for every US gallon of gas used. If you sat down and did the math, an average car creates about 8 metric tonnes of pollution a year!
speakntruth 2 years ago
I understand that you're crying about a small tiny amount of "inefficiency" in using CLEAN SOLAR & CLEAN HYDROGEN and crying about how a little bit of "renewable energy" is wasted by converting solar energy and water into hydrogen gas, but have you ever factored in how much energy is spent (and wasted) on mining for coal, drilling for oil, refining it, using NG or just the cost of removing the carbon footprint or the pollution that is caused from FOSSIL fuels from the environment?
speakntruth 2 years ago
I understand that energy is being wasted (SOLAR energy) by converting water into Hydrogen gas (via electrolysis), and while I agree that it may be inefficient (to convert water into Hydrogen using electric), hydrogen gas can be safely stored, processed and contained. There is more to than just the efficiency of one step of the process. It needs to function as a system. If you can use solar energy to recharge the battery, & store the hydrogen produced, you are creating a renewable energy system.
speakntruth 2 years ago
Conservatively, do you not believe that you could produce 150-210 liters of Hydrogen Gas in a WEEK? (just using a 12V deep cell battery, a 400 watt solar panel, and 8 hours a day of solar energy, a small HHO generator, and water for 7 days) That's still 30-42 gallons of Hydrogen Gas in a week. At 68mpg, do you plan on driving more than 2,040-2,856 miles per week? Just be realistic, you're producing more hydrogen than you could possibly even use driving the car.
speakntruth 2 years ago
Who said anything about perpetual motion you moron? Listen, a Honda FCX only has a 47 gallon storage tank. Do you NOT believe that a 400 watt solar panel can charge a 12V battery with 8 hours of sunlight? Do you not believe that a fully charged 12V battery could produce 30 liters of Hydrogen Gas in an hour? (and shut off) Do you not believe 8 hours of sunlight the following day would fully charge the 12V battery? Do you believe that fully charged battery could produce ~30 liters? (and shut off)
speakntruth 2 years ago
I doubt you could even reverse engineer a light switch!
hawkermustang 2 years ago
Speak, If you can produce 150 gallons of hydrogen in a half hour with a 12 volt battery and a hydrogen generator and a small solar panel, then do it and become rich! If not stop talking shit and try to engineer something easier like a paper airplane or a bomb.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
Speak, you are a retard! I never said a solar panel produces hydrogen! I know hydrogen can be generated also! I also know it takes more energy to produce hydrogen than the energy the hydrogen wil produce! If you can't understand that then go away!
hawkermustang 2 years ago
Hawker, a solar panel doesn't produce any Hydrogen you moron! An HHO Generator is what produce hydrogen (it splits water into Hydrogen Gas + Oxygen through a process called Electrolysis). A standard HHO Generator can be powered either by 120V or 12V electrical current. If you had half of a brain, then you'd know that. Yes, you can power an HHO Generator using a simple 12V Deep Cell battery. The HHO Generator turns on, fills a hydrogen storage tank (or car), and shuts off.
speakntruth 2 years ago
Speak, You need a massive solar panel and multiple 12 volt batteries to produce the amount of hydrogen you are talking about. 1 12 volt battery and a small solar panel will get you a very small amount of hydrogen and a dead battery, thats all.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
speak, I was referring to a hydrogen generator dumb ass. There is no such thing as perpetual motion. Have someone smarter than you explain my previous comment to you so you can understand it! Or put your engineering degree to good work and blow yourself up.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
Hawkermustang, do you believe that a house can run on SOLAR energy? (and is that your idea of "perpetual motion" you moron?) Listen, a 12V Deep Cell battery is what powers the HHO Generator (thus converting water + an electrolyte into Hydrogen Gas and Oxygen). Oxygen is released into the atmosphere, the Hydrogen is stored in a tank. Do you believe this can be done, or are you too stupid to even believe in Electrolysis? The solar panel is just used to keep the battery fully charged.
speakntruth 2 years ago
Hawkermustang, quit being ignorant and do a simple YouTube search on "HHO Generator" or "HHO generator 25 liters per minute". If you don't seem to believe that you can use 12V electrical current to split water (with a teaspoon of baking soda as electrolyte) into hydrogen gas, and oxygen (through a process known as Electrolysis) then you're dumber than I thought.
speakntruth 2 years ago
speakn, You claim to be an engineer and you claim that a 12 volt battery and small solar panel will generate 150 gallons of hydrogen in 30 minutes. That would be a perpetual motion machine and there is no such thing! The fact is it takes more input energy to create hydrogen than the output energy created from the hydrogen. Try not to be ignorant.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
Do you know how stupid you sound? No moron, the hydrogen generator generates the Hydrogen gas (you've never heard of an HHO generator)? Are you really this incredibly stupid? Yes, you can build (or even buy) a simple HHO generator, and yes it does run on 12V electricity (a standard deep cell 12V battery). Brainiac, you're not running the HHO generator 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You only use it to fill/recharge a storage tank. The solar panel is just used to charge/recharge the 12V battery.
speakntruth 2 years ago
Hawkermustang, I understand that you're not an engineer, but try not to show off your complete ignorance. If you can't figure out how to create Hydrogen gas, then do a search on "HHO Generator 9 plate" and there is a nice video of a 9 year old child (who certainly isn't an engineer) producing 2 Liters a minute of hydrogen gas just using $34 worth of stainless steel wallplates, some marine expoxy and a sheet of acrylic. Try not to be ignorant.
speakntruth 2 years ago
You are an engineer? Well I guess that makes me a rocket scientist. lol You need to stop watching stupid shit on the net and pretending to be an expert on subjects you really know nothing about.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
Many people just want to new car technology will be exactly as gasoline cars. Try to adjust your bit ...
gurra1351 2 years ago
I think electric and hydrogen cars is the future. You don't need a dirty powerplant to the electric cars. Use renewable energy to them. In the future we probably get Fusion power plant. Then we get so much electricity so we drowned.
gurra1351 2 years ago
Shit, I like this car! :D
gurra1351 2 years ago
Now I want Honda to work with Holden to provide Hydrogen Fuel Cell Engines for their Cars specially the Holden SS and SV6 cause those cars are really nice in design I just like them. Shame Holden isn't 100% Australian anymore i think it's partly owned by General Motors America. And Honda should make that Technology available for their Garden Maintence Hardware eg Ride on Lawn mower. What sort of water can it take or does it take Hydrogen gas?
TravvyG 2 years ago
This only confirms that all the inventors that came up with this and were murdered, were murdered for no good reason
Rescueswimmer85 2 years ago
I find it funny that there is a huge uproar and demand for vehicles like this- that are inexpensive, capable and produce absolutely no emissions- and then when it's actually invented, people complain that it isn't cost effective or that it's part of some huge conspiracy. Good grief, the human race just can't win, can it?
iPOWERx09 2 years ago
This is great
catburst 2 years ago
I'm not a huge Honda fan as I think they're overpriced and not too great to look at, but I really like this FCX. Very exciting. It's a pretty sexy shape and I love the dark cherry color. The idea of a quiet car that gets 68mpg with only water vapor as exhaust is simply amazing and so exciting for our future. I can't wait to see what's to come!
palebeachbum 2 years ago
If you take into consideration that the earth is 80% water, and understood how much water evaporates (from the ocean) on a single day, even with everyone in the whole world using cars that run completely on hydrogen/water for 20 full years it would still be less water vapor than the amount of water that evaporates from the oceans in ONE single day. Yet, we don't see huge global floods, just because water evaporates.
speakntruth 2 years ago
If all our cars run on hyrdrogen, would that mean that this planet will get more rainfall than usual if not maybe even floods over the globe?
tiberianexcalibur 2 years ago
Tiberian,
Do you have any idea how much water evaporates on a daily basis from our oceans and our fresh water lakes? Water goes up, and water comes down on a constant basis. Nope, even with 30+ million cars releasing water vapor in a single city it wouldn't harm the environment at all, nor would the rainfall do much of anything other than water your grass, but most jet-stream currents would move the moist air away anyways, so it's highly unlikely the water would even come back down over land.
speakntruth 2 years ago
Oh wow gee I never of that. Thanks for letting me know. :)
tiberianexcalibur 2 years ago
Myztic,
As an engineer, I can tell you that this is NOT rocket science. All you need is an extra 12V car battery, a small hydrogen generator, a 5 gallon sealed water container. The hydrogen generator can kick on and off (to refuel/recharge the hydrogen gas storage tank) as necessary. It can do this anytime while driving or while parked. (A car alternator can recharge the extra car battery while the car is running, and a solar panel can trickle charge the extra battery while parked in the sun).
speakntruth 2 years ago
this doesnt use a battery it just generates the power when and where it needs it which is far better as there is a limit to how much use and recharging a battery can take
SH4DYBR4DY 2 years ago
Myztic,
Keep in mind that the FCX has a car stereo and an Air Conditioner, and BOTH use 50+ times more electricity than a small hydrogen generator (electrolysis). We're not trying to put a man on the moon, but just a separate 12V car battery, and a small hydrogen generator could produce about 150+ gallons of hydrogen gas in less than a half hour (using a standard 12V battery). All you need is a small solar panel to "trickle charge" the 12V battery to keep the battery fully charged.
speakntruth 2 years ago
speak, You don't know what you are talking about. A 12 volt battery and a small solar panel connected to a hydrogen generator will generate 150 gallons of hydrogen in 1/2 hours? LOL Put the crack pipe down, that shit will generate zero hydrogen in a half hour!
hawkermustang 2 years ago
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speakntruth 2 years ago
Myztic,
It requires EXTREMELY little electricity to separate Hydrogen and Oxygen. Very little, almost nothing. Go spend $34 and buy yourself a 12V car battery, and 5 or 6 stainless steel wall plates, and space the wall plates about 1/8" apart (with plastic washers), and add about a 1/4 spoon of baking soda and drop it into a 1 gallon bucket of water, and see how quickly you can make pure hydrogen. Electrolysis splits the water into pure Hydrogen & Oxygen. This is not rocket science.
speakntruth 2 years ago
speakntruth, it takes 5 times the energy to split hydrogen compared to how much energy you get back out of it with a fuel cell or burning it.
ndyt 2 years ago
Oil and NG companies have deep pockets and they spend all their money on silly campaign funds, to fight off "green" technologies such as Hydrogen. Oil Companies do NOT want people driving cars on rain water (for free), it would kill off the Oil Industry, and Hydrogen Gas can be made for about 2.4 cents a gallon, and you can make about 150 gallons from about 3 gallons of rain water. If Honda added an onboard Hydrogen Electrolysis Generator (that runs off 12V battery) the car could run on water.
speakntruth 2 years ago
speakntruth, no, big oil wants hydrogen powered cars because they will make the hydrogen from natural gas. This is the cheapest way to make hydrogen. Making it from water uses way too much electricity.
ndyt 2 years ago
And the problem with that is...what?
Get your head around this: they provide a product we want, and we pay for it. It's capitalism, and it works. If we want something else, we'll buy it. We want hydrocarbon fuels, and they put the money out for the infrastructure to get us what we ask for.
And, unlike charging stations and the like, you can supplement your NG tank with those little propane bottles Coleman sells. We get all of our gas domestically, not imported.
What's the problem?
cecilbdml 2 years ago
cecilbdml, nut much wrong with NG, I am against Fuel Cell and pro ER-EV.
ndyt 2 years ago
One word here.... inevitable.
Others might say electric rechargable batteries are the way forward, but batteries lose the ability to store power over time. My money's on Hydrogen.
Kethtgi 2 years ago 10
@Kethtgi that is interesting I am actually have my money on a wind powered car. It may not be very possible at this time but in the future hopefully it will be more possible. :)
DinoHunter56 1 year ago
and by the way, this is an electric car only with a fuel cell instead of a battery.
hydrogen cars power an internal combustion engine with hydrogen.
myztic123 2 years ago
actually, they use a fuel cell which does not use compression or combustion. You can however run an internal combustion engine on hydrogen, but its a very different process.
PaulieFetz 2 years ago
well, not exactly it doesn't use an internal combustion engine...
you're half way there, it generates electricity to turn the crankshaft, internal combustion engines cause explosions, a much more primitive concept for a drive train...
Honda are my new favorite car manufacturer... they've saved the world, or they're going to... toyota released a huge con-job with the prius and battery opperated electric cars are heaps of shit...
this car is maybe the smartest car ever...
wolfmother4eva 2 years ago
yeah i did write that this car doesnt use an ice, didnt i?
myztic123 2 years ago
i mustn't of seen that comment because i saw your comment saying it did...
wolfmother4eva 2 years ago
The car of the future is here today
pegobuilders 2 years ago
Hydrogen vehicles are the future! Hydrogen vehicles could have onboard "hydrogen generators" that could convert 5 gallons of water into about 14 gallons of hydrogen. You could easily have a vehicle that runs 100% on water. Plus Hydrogen Generators could be sold for about $1,800 that could plug into a standard electrical outlet, and connect to a water faucet and produce Hydrogen for about 3 cents per gallon. The Oil Companies are angry, but hydrogen is the future!
speakntruth 2 years ago
do you have one of this generators?
myztic123 2 years ago
why don't the oil companies change to become hydrogen companies? one thing we must concede is that the decalination for all the sea-water to make the hydrogen could be an issue but it's still nothing compared to the damage that fossil fuels make...
wolfmother4eva 2 years ago
Electric is NOT the way to go. Here's why. The nice clean electricity that powers your car comes from the big, dirty powerplant that provides all of that allegedly clean electricity. The carbon footprint from the car is offset, not removed. Also, let's drive a hybrid from San Francisco to LA. There will be at least one recharge along the way, adding hours and hours to the drive. It may be the future, but that future is a long way off.
BlackRoseTurnedRed 2 years ago
you do know that most hydrogen nowadays is made from oil/earth gas?
and if it's made from water you need an awful lot of electricity to convert it, why not focus on producing clean electricity and then use it in a >90% efficient electric motor instead of losing much energy in the various conversion processes (hydrogen generation, compression, hydrogen to electricity with a fuel cell)?
myztic123 2 years ago
Myztic,
You sound extremely ignorant, uses almost no electricity at all to produce a few thousand gallons of Hydrogen gas. Just take a simple 12 volt car battery, and a few stainless steel wall plates, and you'll see how extremely easy it is to separate water in to pure Hydrogen Gas and pure oxygen (H2O is nothing more than 2 atoms of hydrogen, and 1 atom of Oxygen). Get yourself a cheap 12V solar panel (to recharge the 12V battery) and you now have an endless supply of hydrogen gas.
speakntruth 2 years ago
i know it's easy, but the input power is larger than the output. and therefore it's by far not an endless supply.
i think you are joking though ..
myztic123 2 years ago
why do you think?
amigainspired 2 years ago
these need to be made available everywhere NOW
ljguitar91 2 years ago 2
if you guys do ur research u will learn that there are 2 ways to make hydrogen. the easiest and most popular way creates a lot of carbon pollution thus not solving the pollution problem. plus if your hydrogen car breaks down fixing it is a huge task itself. ever thought of piercing ur pressurized hydrogen tank in a bad accident? the future is not and never will be hydrogen. the future is electric cars for city drivers and improved hybrids for everyone else
00musdan 2 years ago
hahah that thing sounds SICK!
praetorian2150 2 years ago
Clearly if they have the technology to do it then i think car makers should stop using petrol or diesel engines. They should switch to hydrogen because it can be done . And before everyone starts to critizise me about there being hardly any hydrogen filling stations well they big oil companies can start making alot more money on hydrogen then oil. Shell have already managed to in california ive seen a hydrogen pump in a filling staion. Whats stoping everyone to switch to hydrogen?
DanM012324 2 years ago 3
This is the best car I have seen!... Brilliant design & amazing idea......
amigainspired 2 years ago 3
i don't see why the chevy volt is getting so much coverage when this is so much more practical and doesn't use any gas unlike the volt.
jivejames67119 2 years ago 6
Also: the cold weather states could be a problem for current hydrogen cars, only testing will tell. IF so.. midwestern and northerners will remain using gas. I doubt it will be any different than trying to start a chevy v8 at -8 degrees. I used a electric blanket made for engines to keep the engine warm over night, I see little difference in Gas engine in cold weather or electric/hydrogen system.
strata1972 2 years ago
I'm so tired of hearing about the infrastructure problem. I've watched crews throw up a filling station in 2 weeks here in Texas. How long to dig out 2 or 3 tanks and replace them and the pumps above? 2 or 3 days. The problem is American car producers are in cahoots with big oil and the japs and germans are not. Over here Big Oil (Rockefellars)
are trying to figure out how to monopolize this Hydrogen stuff or at least minimize, bad mouth, etc. to curb switching over to hydrogen.
strata1972 2 years ago 5
I sure hope i'll start seeing hydrogen fuel stations around my town soon.
GoldenDragon667 2 years ago
its an honest good faith attempt in advertisement here .... I like the honda motor and they are in the game... thinking like survivors ... leaving a legacy worth inheritance... just go find a dealer and look under the hood ...read the manual & take one for a drive... I want someone to preformance test these vehicles in 15 degrees and below 6" or more of sleet and snow ... it will make people more convinced and they will want to know about the tires... they need snow tires
GAMEOFTAG 2 years ago
tell me of something that can go through 6" of snow thats not a truck. sorry but your rwd mustang will be screwed
WhiteLoneWolf10 2 years ago
The oil companies won't let cars like that take over the road.
Amandalicious1987 2 years ago 2
What is different in this case? Time will tell I suppose by one of two trhings will happen. History will repeat itself OR investors (corps.) will make hydrogen as pricy as the fuel we use now and impossible or illegal to make at home (should you want to venture that way).I
ts kinda like the 1st diesel were invented to run on bio-diesel. Tractors were built this way so farmers would grown and produce their own bio-fuel to run the machine...where did you go wrong.
barbeau1981 2 years ago
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3 year lease only? GM did the same thing in the 90s with the electric car at the time (can't remember the name) and people loved it. The gov even promised that a certain percentage of the vehs on the road in cali were going to have to be other then petrol users (elec, hydro, etc etc) by a set date but GM took the cars back at the end of the lease and scrapped them and cali ''changed it minds'' about that ground breaking progressive new law.
barbeau1981 2 years ago
What is different in this case? Time will tell I suppose by one of two trhings will happen. History will repeat itself OR investors (corps.) will make hydrogen as pricy as the fuel we use now and impossible or illegal to make at home (should you want to venture that way).
BMW has been experimenting with Hydrogen cars since the 90s (had a working model in germany in 98) but the draw back was the infrastructure prob. with refuelling stations.
barbeau1981 2 years ago
Idk if I agree with that. With gas the prices were high because of supposed demand, but considering that Hydrogen is our world's most abundant resource, meaning we can never run out of it, what would be their excuse then ??
Smooth258 2 years ago 2
3 year lease only? GM did the same thing in the 90s with the electric car at the time (can't remember the name) and people loved it. The gov even promised that a certain percentage of the vehs on the road in cali were going to have to be other then petrol users (elec, hydro, etc etc) by a set date but GM took the cars back at the end of the lease and scrapped them and cali ''changed it minds'' about that ground breaking progressive new law.
barbeau1981 2 years ago
don't forget the new honda insight - gets over 50mpg and it's performance is just as good at the new prius's
alexkvaskov 2 years ago
Hooray Jay Leno and Top Gear!
23Prospero37 2 years ago 2
Lindoo, lindoo, gataoo..
Gabimaryjane 2 years ago
68 mpg and 140 hp too? Damn, I want one!
k3kc3000 2 years ago
I think it's just over 70 mpg combined rating.
Endreveren 2 years ago
Oops, nevermind, mpg is down to 60 mpg, still better than anything out there though.
Endreveren 2 years ago
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hydrogen fuel cell will never work
peterbob101 2 years ago
Do you know the tale about the penguin 'Nonono'?
You have just watched an example, you could see with your eyes that it works - but you still deny it. You're just like that penguin arent ya?
madaraszi 2 years ago 2
it will never work as a production car
peterbob101 2 years ago
watch the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car it explains truth about the hydrogen fuel cell car
peterbob101 2 years ago
omfg i want this car
RexieV 2 years ago <