What will the next generation of cars run on, Hydrogen or electric?
Tavish Tavish asked:
What will the car firms go with?
Hydrogen cells that produce energy when it is filled with oxygen and hydrogen or electricity powered straight into a cars battery from a charger.
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What will the car firms go with?
Hydrogen cells that produce energy when it is filled with oxygen and hydrogen or electricity powered straight into a cars battery from a charger.
Hydrogen is looking like the preferred choice right now but battery technology is getting much better supposedly.
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February 18th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Gasoline. I honestly don’t see hydrogen or electric making major headway in the next 20 years. It is too little too late. Stuff like this should have been in development in the 70’s when the first gasoline crunch hit. We would have all been driving hydrogen hover cars by now.
February 19th, 2009 at 2:56 am
I think that fuel cells are losing favor and electric is the trend.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:57 am
I don’t see this happening anytime soon but I guess neither this nor that.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:00 am
I would say that electric is more viable than hydrogen because we would have to have vast stores of hydrogen if everyone in the country were to use fuel cells and we don’t have the capability to make the amount of hydrogen needed. For example, there is a family out in California who is using a fuel cell-powered car, and they can only refill the fuel cell once a week because the process the make the hydrogen takes so long. Electric, on the other hand can be obtained much more easily. We already have many electric plants and it can easily be obtained from solar, wind, hydroelectric, or even geothermal energies. Most likely, though, hybrid cars will take over in the foreseeable future. Being that we don’t have electric stations set up like gasoline stations on the side of the road, gasoline will continue to be used.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 am
I’ll come with Hydrogen - less harm at the end
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Electricity, as long as it is produced cleanly.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:20 am
Lets get the clean diesel and get 60 mpg Like Europe
Even with regular diesel we would produce less polutants, because we would only use half the amount of fuel to get their. Ask Jay Leno.
March 1st, 2009 at 5:11 am
Hydrogen >IS< electric.
Hydrogen will be made from electricity. (right now it’s made from methane, but that’s because very few people use hydrogen for anything. We’ll need too much of it for cars, so we’ll need to make it by electrolysis. In other words, hydrogen will be a way to store electricity.
A lot like a battery is. So then the question is, what is better way to store electricity - hydrogen or a battery? Ask that question, and one answer becomes apparent: hydrogen is far too inefficient.
The only conceivable “upside” is that you will be able to refill a hydrogen car “quickly”. But we’re dealing with filling a 10,000 PSI tank through a small hose. Ever try that? On the other hand, you can walk into Target today and walk out with a 15 minute battery charger. &&
So I’m not too worried about quick charge batteries.
Anyway the whole battery issue will be irrelevant thanks to plug-in hybrids, that carry their own onboard recharger that runs on gas, diesel, whatever. 95% of your driving will be entirely electric off the battery, and you’ll only use fuel on road trips.
March 1st, 2009 at 9:43 am
Maybe both.
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:25 am
hydrogen is out…there are 500,000 gas stations…who will pay for hydrogen stations? hydrogen is under high pressure and slow for fill up….mechanics and dealers have already had some dealings with elect cars…
March 4th, 2009 at 8:11 am
A little history of hydrogen.
1766 - Henry Cavendish, was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called “inflammable air”.[1] He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper “On Factitious Airs”. Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish’s experiment and gave the element its name (hydrogen).
1860 - Mr. Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir from Belgium/ France built the first car that produced its own combustible hydrogen fuel by onboard electrolysis (powered by a battery).
2008 Especially the market for Brown’s gas generators and HHO fuel savers seems to be booming. Several new manufacturers and even more distributors of these products show up. The quality of the generators varies. It has been proven that internal combustion engines boosted with Oxygen Hydrogen run smoother using less convential fuel and have much less air pollution
How to turn your cancer, asthma, heart disease and toxic acid rain making machine into a hybrid.
Also with cigarettes now have their effects displayed on packets, then so should the petrol pumps and cars also have images showing their effects as well. At least with cigarettes you get the choice whether to breath in the fumes, but with petrol you get no choice! Put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr Brown.
March 5th, 2009 at 1:38 am
from what i know electric cars are getting better an more efficent so i think electric
March 8th, 2009 at 10:21 am
electric.
1 the purest form of energy
2 portability: trasported easily over existing infrastructure
3 safest
4 most efficient in terms of energy conversion to “work”.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Electric, no question about it.
It’s more efficient, much of the infrastructure is already in place, it’s cleaner, and it’s cheaper.
There are too many roadblocks in the way of hydrogen for it to be a viable alternative on a large scale for several decades. Electric cars are virtually ready for large scale production now.
See the links below for further details.
March 12th, 2009 at 3:34 am
They will run on probably on gasoline or electric