Ford says that they are getting close to production hydrogen cars, whether this is true or not is not known. Ford have been trying out 30 E-450 Hydrogen shuttle buses throughout the US and Canada, and have said that they have been producing almost zero emissions and up to 13 percent better fuel economy. Ford says that within 5 years they could be ready for road production hydrogen cars.
The hard part is trying to generate enough hydrogen to make it necessary to fit in a normal size car, just look at the size of the test buses, which have a 6.8 liter engine. The other hurdle that Ford as well as other car makers has is, where do they extract the hydrogen fuel from. Some say water or fossil fuels, but both of these are an energy-consuming processes, some say that hydrogen could come from woody biomass.
If you have any thoughts on this, then do please let me know.
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1 KEVIN WOODCOX // Jul 16, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Am i missing something here?? Why is how they are going to extract the hydrogen a problem? Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it possible to extract hydrogen from water using solar energy. last time I checked the sun is always shining somewhere in the world. Oh here’s an idea a north america wide hydrogen network where u sell the excess hydrogen back to the system or get credit for when u the user need more. Nah, that’ll never work someone will just call it communism….Ah ya OPEC still has us by the short and curlies and we in north america just can’t seem to wake up!!
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