January 26th, 2012 
Simple Water Fuel I remember a few years back that GM had an awesome hydrogen car that was supposed to be the next big thing and revolutionize the auto industry. Once the government took over General Motors though the whole hydrogen car program just disappeared. What happened to it and why are they not working on it anymore?
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It exploded.
by: Peter
on: 31st July 10
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Stuff like this always happens the gas industry makes it too hard for them to succeed.
It is so expensive that nobody can afford it and there is pretty much nowhere to refuel it.
If you have more money than common sense GM and Honda both lease fuel cell vehicles.
The closest liquid hydrogen we can get in reasonable quantities is Jupiter and Saturn. The fueling stations were out of this cars range though.
Hydrogen as a viable fuel source for vehicles is so far off that it’s hardly worth even holding your breath over. The problems associated with using hydrogen as a fuel source are so large that a workable hydrogen fuel operating system is 50 – 100 years away. Not only can vehicles not safely store an adequate supply of H2 to propel the vehicle a reasonable distance, there are no H2 refueling stations around. So, there are no H2 vehicles running around. Then, you run in to the problem of making all that H2. Sure, H2 can easily be produced by running an electric current through water, but where, then, does the electricity come from?
It would take massive amounts of electricity to produce all the H2 necessary to power vehicles on massive scale. So, why not just skip hydrogen altogether, and go with electric?
There are no easy answers to any of our energy problems. At least with electric vehicles, we already have a running start with hybrids, which are basically half electric vehicles already.
I am sure H2 vehicles will one day be a viable solution. That day, however, is not coming any time soon.
It exploded.
Of course the conspiracy nuts will say that the oil company’s killed it but that’s not the case. For one thing Hydrogen is commonly made from natural gas that the oil companies control anyway.
The truth is that dealing with hydrogen is very expensive. Building the infrastructure to support more than just a few hydrogen cars is very expensive. So we have the chicken and egg problem. No one wants hydrogen cars if there is no infrastructure to support them and no one want to build the infrastructure is there are no electric cars to use them and cover the cost.