Honda Insight Hybrid Sales, Hydrogen Development Cut Back...

Honda's Insight sells well in Japan, Hydrogen Fuel Cell development cut back by the Obama administration, Mille Miglia starts off, the next generation Audi A8 seems unchanged, and what's Lotus working on? That's all today, hosted by Derek DeAngelis.

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• Audi
• A8
• Honda
• Insight
• Japan
• Sales
• Hyrbid
• Future
• Cars
• Lotus
• Esprit
• Elise

[GT37RB18C1]

Haha, sorry for the bad grammar. It's late at night.

[GT37RB18C1]

The simple fact that we are not ready for hydrogen fuel cell cars, can be showed the love and joy for Honda and Toyota in this country, the old ones all the way up to the new ones. By the general public, not a just group of enthusiasts. Everyone loves gas mileage and reliability. Not mention ease/cost for repair. That sadly will be the end of domestic cars in this country. We will soon see more Japanese supercars in this country, the GTR was the beginning for better or worse. Mostly better.

[MiamiInchez]

That may be true, but either way they both look ugly!

[Srbijarulez]

Well I don't think it's "Why does the Insight look like the Prius" as much as it is "Why does the Prius look like an Insight"

Don't forget that the first gen Insight came out before the Prius, it had the same look from behind as the new Prius, so the Prius did end up copying the Insight if you look back.

[DeltaNC]

That is not the point, you will never get 100% efficiency in turning water into hydrogen by electrolysis. You need to the think of the hydrogen as storage medium not as energy. Batteries take hours to charge, gas tanks take seconds to fill. Fuel cells are practical, batteries are not.

Aside from that, recessions are the perfect time to invest in infrastructure projects, they create skilled jobs which cannot be outsourced. Money goes to local workers and then right back into the economy.

[TBustah]

You're still using more energy to convert it than you get from it. It's impractical.

Besides, the government needs to be investing in something that works NOW, not something that is going to need a lot of funding and research to get going. We already have gas stations all over the country, but they would need to be retooled to work with hydrogen if they were to do it.

I'm not saying that hydrogen will never work, I'm just saying that now, in the middle of a major recession, is not the time

[MiamiInchez]

I have heard so many bad things about the insight. Also why does it look like a Prius, why do they have to make full effecient hybrids look so fucking ugly.

[DeltaNC]

Your argument is slightly flawed, yes you get about the same energy out of hydrogen as you to need to 'make' it (less actually) but storing energy as hydrogen is a much more practical way to do it. Hydrogen can be moved and manipulated much quicker than electricity inside batteries.

We use electricity to 'make' hydrogen, and we can gain electricity from renewable sources. Is large scale electrolysis REALLY more hassle than drilling oil from a sea bed and refining it?

[DaBrute]

correction my good friend - metal file: 1 you: 0 lol

[AWDfreak]

I'd rather have an Insight than some boring Prius (although both seem boring anyways, the Honda has shiftable forward gears).....