How will the new hydrogen-powered car eventually dominate?
cheshire98 asked:
I’m curious as to how these cars will be, in the future, used by all. It’s going to be really expensive now, so how can it really help us?
The first hydrogen-powered car is owned by Honda.
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I’m curious as to how these cars will be, in the future, used by all. It’s going to be really expensive now, so how can it really help us?
The first hydrogen-powered car is owned by Honda.
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April 18th, 2008 by admin
Posted in Other - Cars & Transportation
April 18th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
It won’t. It would be much more efficient, but to many people, these cars won’t have enough power or the ability to get from Point A to Point B.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:03 am
As the price of gas goes up it will eventually be more cost effective to own a hydrogen powered car. As they become more popular, more service stations will start providing services for them and the price/costs associated with them will drop. It would actually be good if the govt gave incentives to gas stations to provide service for hydrogen cars, which would make the transition to them faster.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Hydrogen may be awhile coming, for several reasons:
1) it takes more power to make hydrogen than we get from burning it. It would be more efficient to use that initial power to run the cars.
2) Hydrogen is difficult to store. It would take large high pressure tanks to store enough compressed hydrogen to get the equivalent amount of energy stored in gasoline. It would be like driving around with half a dozen acetalene tanks in the back of your car. Storing it as a liquid would mean a big, bulky, heavy insulated tank. It can be stored as a solid, I think, but that also takes lots of space.
3) in a collision, you run the risk of releasing all that hydrogen at once, and a stray spark could make your car (and you) look like a miniature Hindenburg.
4) refueling would be a slow process. Right now it takes just a minute or two to put 15 gallons of gas into your car. Putting the equivalent amount of energy in the form of hydrogen in a car tank may take 10-20 minutes.
5) there are very few places that can refuel a hydrogen car, so car makers don’t want to build a car that can’t be refueled. Gas station companies don’t want to install hydrogen fueling stations because there’s nobody there to buy the stuff. It’s a catch-22.
Here’s a link to a story on hydrogen cars.
April 24th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
with out nuclear power to generate the hydrogen,
it is imposable for hydrogen to be used as a fuel source