Jesus christ man, can any of you just appreciate that some awesome sceintist out there has ACTUALLY found a way to use hydrogen to power a car? I mean, sooner or later when all the fossil fuels runs out, i bet you all wont be crying about it all eh?

Pussys

The Hydrogen to run this car comes from Natrural Gas, a FOSSIL FUEL!

There’s a filling station in Santa Monica, CA and Irvine, CA. That’s why it’s only offered in California, and more specifically, the LA/Orange County area.

Hear Hear!!!!!!!

It shows that it is poible today to run on hydrogene in a car
which is not much futuristic. But instead of telling whow fantastic it is they now have to tell who to mace the hydrogene in a manner which does not harm the invironment.
And onje is for shure to me. If Honda has not anymore the money to run the racing track it will take every other what it can to make money with.
So if now one will be cricical about whow to will jump in the market.
s that the fule cell techn. has come to a certain

I second that emotion.

Hydrogen may be produced from water using the process of electrolysis, but this process is presently significantly more expensive commercially than hydrogen production from natural gas

For those complaining about the use of Natural Gas to create the Hydrogen..keep in mind which process produces the most hydrocarbon especially when you also consider that the emission from the tailpipe of this car is WATER and not the 1-2 tonnes of carbon we emit/year in our vehicles. This is a technology that can only improve and is much more promising in regards to the environment then conventional fossil fuels where the technology is over 100 years old.

GS Yuasa is notorious for window-dressing. SO I think it’s dame gimmick.

We’ll soon see as GS Yuasa are also in a joint venture with Mitsubishi to supply the MiEV which will be available in RHD countries this year.

The Electric Grid produces extremely harmful emissions. Plugging your car in only defers the source of the emissions and the source of the bill (from the pump to the electric bill). It is perfectly reasonable to think that entrepreneurs will get into the business of producing the Hydrogen fuel needed for fuel cell cars and with proper regulation this can be built FROM THE GROUND UP to have the least possible emissions (Solar, Geothermal, wind etc.) Plug-ins are stopgap, FC Cars are the future

I think you;ve missed the mos important aspect of all this. It;s not saving the planet, although that’s a useful byproduct. The real benefit is that it ends our dependency on oil. Then the Arabs will go back to their tents and stop bothering us.
Woo-hoo!

These cars cost $1 million each to build and that price isn’t coming down for a long time because the fuel cell is made from platinum and the tanks are carbon fiber that has to hold 10,000 PSI. These are total vapor ware.

this car will change the world congrats honda for being the first hydrogen fuel cell car just like the world changed from caset videos to dvds

Here’s a quote from the LA Times who tested the FCX

“Some illustrative math: It takes about 60 kilowatt-hours of electricity to gin a kilogram of hydrogen from water. The FCX Clarity’s tank holds about 4 kilograms of H2 and that gives it a range of about 270 miles on 240 kWhs.

The all-electric Tesla Roadster has a 53-kWh lithium-ion battery and a range of 220 miles. So the Tesla’s per-mile costs in electricity are roughly one-quarter what they are in the FCX Clarity.”

The most efficient electric power plants today, using coal or natural gas, gets about 60% efficiency. Fuel cells get about 85% using natural gas as source of hydrogen, and the excess heat used for heating water and stuff. FCV’s are still a gamble, just like GM’s EV1 was, just like hybrids was at first. But in the real world, of electric plants and water treatment plants, fuel cells are already making a difference. Technology is not about talking points, it’s about what works.

I really hope the world will pick up on this! These cars are our next solution to replace oil.

Fucking stupid oil companies are the only reason why we are still driving petrol cars

the video submitters comments are worth a read >>

What they do not show is the energy required to make hydrogen. Conveniently, the video ended as the topic was about to be discussed. You spend more energy to create hydrogen then you get out of it. The law of thermodynamics has not been broken yet. There’s no free lunch, people.

Tokyo University, the hydrogen production efficiency in solar cells and photocatalytic Mitsubishi Chemical, Tokyo team will use the solar lean, has developed technology to produce hydrogen and fuel cells. Combination of photocatalysis and solar, more efficient water electrolysis. The fuel cell is expected to spread to cars and homes are made of hydrogen and natural gas, new technology is a promising technology for fossil fuel prolapse.

That is true but the cost of producing hydrogen is less than extracting oil from wherever and processing it . You can use, solar and nuclear. These are almost limitless source of energy while fossil fuel can run out. Oil is also has negative impact on the environment and affecting our foreign policy. Eventually all is about economics and politics. Eventually I think the renewable source of energy will win because we are humans and as such…rational.

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%producing hydrogen is less than extracting oil from wherever and processing it%
that is a LIE!
prove it with references!

the hydrogen fuel cell car will never work