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VentureBeat: Daimler: Hydrogen-powered cars a reality by 2015

  • Mike · 3 months ago
    Amazing technology
  • Jessica-Lender · 3 months ago
    If you still have to use regular fuel to make the cars run, what is the point in using hydrogen-powered cars? After all, the whole point is to prevent the consumption of all our fossil fules till they become non-existent.
  • Mike in NJ · 3 months ago
    These cars run solely on Hydrogen. The biggest hurdle, other than price for low volume cars is the Hydrogen fueling infrastructure. As Mercedes (Daimler) and others bring in cars, the demand for stations will grow, aloowing for more and more cars to hit the road. Since the cars a zero emission, and hydorgen is both a non fossil fuel and domestically produced, a win -win -win scenario will emerge: reduced emissions, reduced depeltion of natural resources and reduced dependency on foreign oil (from an overall perspective).
  • spec9 · 3 months ago
    Why don't they ever give a price for a hydrogen car?

    Things that make you go "Hmmmm."
  • zikjam · 3 months ago
    Steven Chu is right on. It will take trillions of $ to get the infrastructure for hydrogen and where do you get hydrogen from? Fossil fuels, unless you want to build 100s of nuclear plants to create it which is even more trillions in infrastrcture. Then you have to deal with the smallest molecule on the planet leaking out everywhere causing explosions. This is why refineries burn off hydrogen instead of using it, it is just too difficult and costly to handle. Dr. Zetsche is out to lunch. Natural gas vehicle would be far easier to deploy, but in the end, electric is the technology since the cost of infrastructure is the lowest of any other competing technology.