Hyundai to sell hydrogen-powered SUV in 2014
Source: AP-Excite
By TOM KRISHER
DETROIT (AP) - For years, the joke in the auto industry was that a mass-produced car that runs on hydrogen was always a decade away.
That will change next year when Hyundai starts selling a Tucson SUV powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. It will be the first mass-market vehicle of its type to be sold or leased in the U.S.
"These things are now ready for prime time," John Krafcik, Hyundai's North American CEO, said last week. His company plans to announce details of the new Tucson on Wednesday at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
Even as the industry focused on battery-powered and hybrid cars, automakers such as Hyundai, Honda and Toyota kept up research on fuel cells. Now they appear to have conquered obstacles such as high costs, safety concerns and a lack of filling stations. These vehicles could help the companies meet stricter future fuel-economy standards.
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In this Sunday, Nov. 16, 2013, file photo, a model poses next to a Hyundai Tucson facelift on display at the Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, In 2014, Hyundai says it will starts selling Tucson SUV powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. It will be the first mass-market vehicle of its type to be sold or leased in the U.S. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)Now if we can build some hydrogen power plants, we'll start being energy independent.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)sakabatou
(42,165 posts)At least, not yet.
solarhydrocan
(551 posts)Former Area 51 employee Bob Lazar is interviewed by Visual Effects Supervisor Jon Farhat. In this video, they discuss what H1 (hydrogen) is, how it is created and it's potential in the automotive sector. In addition, Bob show us he has his own particle accelerator which he uses to create 6Li (lithium-6) H (hydride) for H1 storage.
6Li is used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently. It is also one of the key components in making a thermal-nuclear weapon, but by itself is not dangerous. Because of crony capitalism and ignorant politicians, the US government has banned 6Li and the buying and selling of it. However, the making of 6Li H yourself with your own particle accelerator IS NOT!
Bob uses solar panels to power an H1 generator which produces H1 from H2O (water). For the safe and efficient storage of the dangerous H1, 6Li H must be created with a particle accelerator and used for H1 storage in high compression tanks. With the H1 generator, H1 is forced into the 6Li H tanks through the syringe compression process.
Bob is the owner of of United Nuclear Scientific and Switch2Hydrogen. Jon is the owner of ODEMAX and director of this video.
* Engineers and scientists, send errata my way and I will fix it.
Wikipedia pages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen
The electricity is expensive, unless of course solar energy is used:
Italy to Have Solar-Powered Hydrogen Refueling Pumps at Every New Gas Station
http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2010/08/24/acta-hydrogen-refuel-station-italy/
groundloop
(11,520 posts)This is the progress I've been waiting to see for years now. My dream has been to be able to generate hydrogen at home from PV cells, and refuel the car each evening in the comfort of your own garage.
Unfortunately, for the time being anyway, most hydrogen is produced from hydrocarbon sources with CO2 as a byproduct. Still, this is a huge step in the right direction and I hope that the auto industry keeps moving in that direction.
truthisfreedom
(23,151 posts)It's a storage medium, and every method of producing it is less efficient than storing the energy used to make it as electric battery power.
Javaman
(62,531 posts)if you are going to be a buzzkill, do it right, okay?
Where and how are they going to generate the hydrogen?
please don't say coal plants, please don't say coal plants, please don't say coal plants...
if I wish hard enough maybe someone won't say coal plants?
Xolodno
(6,398 posts)littlewolf
(3,813 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)but I thought you could produce hydrogen from biomass conversion? I distinctly remember my energy systems professor mentioning it in 1991 and the technology has to have come a long way since.
I'm in engineering but in a separate field, so I do confess some ignorance on the subject.
Labrat0116
(5 posts)Now if they can make them affordable that would be great!