Picture of the Day: Hyundai Prepares to Sell Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle
Hyundai Motor Co.’s new hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicle NEXO, featured in this photo from the company on March 16, 2018, will go on preorder from March 19. The automaker plans to export the vehicle overseas within this year, aiming to sell 10,000 units globally by 2022. (Yonhap)
How much will it cost to recycle? How much more poison does it create than, say, a 1973 VW Super Beetle?
I’m sure it’s a great car; but the fancy new technology always ends up giving people new forms of cancer.
good. time to rid the world of silly electric cars that produce pollution at the power plant, the lithum mine, and at battery disposal time. electric cars are terrible as a green solution.
Now, where’s all the hydrogen filling stations and infrastructure?
@J6Junkie, currently all of the hydrogen fuel cell refueling stations are in California. That means sales of Hyundai’s vehicle will be limited to that one state. The biggest problem with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are the cost of building a refueling station which is around $2 million. Sales of hydrogen fuel cell cars will never take off until there is more refueling stations, but nobody wants to invest $2 million in a refueling station when there are no cars to refuel.
@setnaffa, hydrogen fuel cell cars emit water as a waste product so it is arguably a cleaner technology than battery cars that still mostly rely on fossil fuels at the power plant to charge.
Korea has very few. Japan has a lot more but no Japanese person woukd be caught in a Hyundai.
Hydrogen fueled vehicle you say? Sounds safe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
Electric cars are the future… and it is a good thing.
In fact, the only bad part is that it has more computer… which could be a good thing… but it will be a bad thing…
…because YOU will not control that computer.
“…because YOU will not control that computer.”
Good point…. say how’s that shiny Android phone you got working out for you? You know the one that’s spying on you in basically every way possible. 😉
GI, I am not certain the manufacturing processes for these cars is any cleaner than other electric cars. And as for the water vapor, well, let’s condense it and watch proponents of this car drink it…
I can be convinced; but I need science, not anti-oil religious dogma. 🙂
A little too early to be assigning blame (not that some folks won’t immediately jump to their preferred conclusions), but computer controlled cars may have had their first fatality:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverless-fatality.html
“Outside of a crosswalk.” What exactly does that mean? Did she cross the road in the middle of the block, or did she suddenly dart out from between two cars? Would a human driver have seen her?
I know those autonomous cars have a little trouble with fixie bikes, when the rider is track-standing to avoid unclipping their shoes from the pedals. Is the bike moving into the intersection, or stopping? The computer errs on the side of caution, which left it taking 2-3 minutes to get through the light as the rider rolled back and forth by a couple inches.
Nothing to do with Korea, but since we’re all a bunch of opinionated doofuses…
Battery powered cars are bad, computer operated cars are horrible.