This auto program on the BBC highlights the GM Highwire which also features interchangeable bodies. Worth a watch. The hosts of the show seem a bit, uh, credulous though seeming to buy anything told them. Still this car is cool. Right now there is only one of these and it cost $5 million.
found by Ben Franske
Of course, we could all switch and use Ethonol RIGHT NOW. But nobody seems to have noticed this. I’m shocked nobody is talking about the green fueled car that Henry Ford made 70 years ago.
Ran on Hemp Oil. It was slow, but if you got stuck behind it… pretty soon you didn’t really care…. man.
The car contains it’s own fuel cell which seperates the hydrogen from the water. This technology could replace powerstations.
Does anyone know how much energy it takes to generate enough hydrogen to run a car? Any figures from experiments? If one needs more energy to generate the hydrogen, than the output of the engine, then it’s a waste – if less energy needed, then it’s great. Any figures anyone?
AS stated above: Hydrogen is a medium for storing energy. Thus, it will always take more energy to create and store energy in the form of hydrogen than will be produced from the hydrogen itself.
The law of conservation applies. The goal is to create a ‘fuel’ from something other than oil, and this is simply one way.
output will never equal or exceed input until a way is found to circumvent the laws of thermodynamics.