Hydrogen Car Information Interview

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live.pirillo.com – Ponzi and I had a rare opportunity to learn more about hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles with one of the automobile industry’s leading minds, Dr. Lars Peter Thiesen. The GM HydroGen4 is the European version of the Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell. In fall 2007, the first of these fuel cell cars — a global fleet of more than 100 vehicles is planned — will be on the roads in the USA. The HydroGen4’s fuel cell stack consists of 440 series-connected cells. The entire system produces an …

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25 Responses to “Hydrogen Car Information Interview”

  1. SenatorMark4 Says:

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    Fuel cell technology? Picture piles of millions of outdated cells and batteries and all their heavy metals. NOT the future.

  2. jalit Says:

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    You need electricity to get hydrogen from the water.

  3. jalit Says:

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    The internal combustion engine needs to combust. Electric motor powered vehicles are the future.

  4. peterbob101 Says:

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    the hydrogen fuel cell car will never work

  5. yoid9 Says:

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    Why not water fuel?
    Yyou dont have to produce it.

  6. Globe85 Says:

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    We have it but we still run cars on gasoline.. I dont get it.

  7. Takshilajha Says:

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    I like what i watched.

  8. TheDarkFalcon Says:

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    well thats what the problem is, and why hydrogen isnt currently being widely deployed is because the process of breaking water into hydrogen and oxygen requires more power than you can get from the resulting hydrogen + oxygen reaction.

  9. daisy3067 Says:

    hydrogen car

    why do we have to go to a place to refuel why don’t we have the vehicle act as a water to hydrogen converter perhaps using solar as power source i get the feeling industry doesn’t want use to break away from the power umbilical cord

  10. AdminOnDuty Says:

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    Ah, another mistake I made here. :(

    Yes, 1HP = 745.699872 Watts :D

    Thanks for pointing that out LBC1215 ;-)

  11. AdminOnDuty Says:

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    Thank you Zanderif for clearing that up. I had an obvious brain fart in trying to do that in my head. My apologies for confusing anyone. Now, where can I buy one of those 100HP electric motors :D

  12. Zanderif Says:

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    Uhh, I’m sure we are all lost with what you’re saying.
    73KW = 73*(10^3) = 73000… (As 1 kilowatts = 1000 watts)
    At your calculation of 736 watts = 1HP, that’s a perfectly correct answer…
    That is, 73000/100 = 730. So, that states that 730 watts per horsepower, which is acceptable when rounded.

  13. madpaintbalerx Says:

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    Don’t forget that there is limitless amounts of hydrogen, and we’re running out of fossil fuels.

  14. Bobertoq Says:

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    Yet hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe…

  15. Bobertoq Says:

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    LOL! Water is not a greenhouse gas!

  16. glumpf Says:

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    thanks for this video!

  17. icicicles Says:

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    Forget the hydrogen car! Build me a hydrogen generator to power my house and electric car. Now that’s going green.
    The oil companies just want to keep you paying for hydrogen fuel like you do now at the pump for gas. Don’t be fooled.

  18. kyle3211234 Says:

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    i would by one right now

  19. Zanderif Says:

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    Wow… I think you missed the point of Hydrogen fuel. The point is to be environmentally friendly, not to destroy the laws of energy (not thermodynamics) and create more energy than is used. They even stated in the video that it’s about the carbon footprint.

    Maybe we should stay with fossil fuels, which require substantial amounts of energy to extract, and create large amounts of pollution.

  20. dbca999 Says:

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    FUEL CELL IS NOT AN ENGINE BUT A MINI-POWER PLANT to generate electricity for Electric Motor to run the car. I ask WHY do you want to “carry” the Fuel Cell in a car, JUST KEEP THE FUEL CELL AT CHARGING STATION to generate electricity for PLAIN ELECTRIC cars to come and charge. At least you won’t have safety issues connected with carrying hydrogen around and lesser weight(no fuel cell stack & no Hydrogen cylinders) to carry around. WHY CARRY FUEL CELL AROUND WITH YOU?

  21. LBC1215 Says:

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    746 watts per horse power not 736watts…right Mr.Admin?

  22. AdminOnDuty Says:

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    Hmmmm, add just one element and you can make alcohol. Carbon.

  23. Suspect169 Says:

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    scince you can’t just pour water into a hydrogen car why not make it into a nice refreshing bodle of aquafina?

  24. AdminOnDuty Says:

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    I’d really like to know how the math is done here. Perhaps its a misprint and should read 10.0 Horse Power? Anyone?

  25. AdminOnDuty Says:

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    My hydryogen car design from 1973 has a condenser on the exhaust system to recover H20vapor to be reused as fuel.

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