Affordable fuel cell cars coming in 2017
You may have read our feature about the future of cars and think you know it all, but now everything is about to change. Ford, Nissan and Daimler have just inked a deal that will see affordable, mass produced fuel cell powered cars on the roads by 2017.
But the big three behind the push for hydrogen cars aren’t only focused on the machines themselves. They say that the next few years will be spent making governments and industries help setup the refueling infrastructure ready for the cars' release.
Fuel-cell cars potentially offer the reduced emissions of electric cars, but without their lengthy recharging times – simply pull up at a pump, top up your tank with hydrogen in a few minutes and you're away.
With hydrogen fuel stations countrywide these environmentally friendly motors could start selling like hot hatches. Could this be the fuel injection that leaves a slow-starting electric car revolution in the dust?
[via Gizmag]
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Comments
markster1971
15 weeks ago
To be affordable it would need to be at £10,000 or less. and that will not happen. i suppose they mean less than £30,000 as affordable.
either way for the rich only. not everyday consumers.
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15 weeks ago
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15 weeks ago
Like everything else, it will start out expensive until the technology starts getting perfected. I've long since been harking about hydro fuel cells and biofuel from micro-algae being deployed alongside each other - all the freedom of your regular car, without having to worry about the government taxing you to death for your emissions. Burn the microalgae fuel to seperate the hydrogen - microalgae consumes much more CO2 during it's lifetime than it produces when burnt.
I'd love to see auto-manufacturers concentrate less on producing new cars and more on making your existing model better. If I could take my Fiat to a dealer and have a new cleaner-running engine installed, get it overhauled and get a snazzy new upgraded interior for a fraction of the cost of a new car it'd be mint, and reduce emissions of new car manufacture