Drink Your Car's Exhaust

    It's finally here!  Multiple sources have confirmed that Honda's first mass-produced hydrogen powered vehicle will be hitting North American and Japanese showrooms sometime in 2008!  Many companies have already showed hydrogen powered cars, and this is actually a 3rd generation one for Honda.  They currently have about 20 hydrogen powered cars on US roads-most being leased by companies and two by individuals for everyday use.  The 2008 FCX will be a larger, family-sized sedan that's expected to run 250 miles on a single tank of hydrogen, and can go up to 100 mph.  The amazing part of it all is that the only exhaust put out by the car is water.  I wonder if they can put a spigot in the dash so I can serve tea on my drives?  Anyhow, in anticipation of my very first hydrogen car, I already got an appropriate license plate - check it out!  For more of the story click to The Register.  Here's a great, comprehensive article: AutoWeek.

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[CGS exhaust]

A cool car. I don't know if it is available in the market. Haven't heard yet someone who used this kind of car.

[CGS cat back exhaust]

The attraction of using hydrogen as an energy currency is that, if hydrogen is prepared without using fossil fuel inputs, vehicle propulsion would not contribute to carbon dioxide emissions. The drawbacks of hydrogen use are low energy content per unit volume, high tankage weights, very high storage vessel pressures, the storage, transportation and filling of gaseous or liquid hydrogen in vehicles, the large investment in infrastructure that would be required to fuel vehicles, and the inefficiency of production processes.