The Riversimple car can go 80km/hr 50mph and travels 322km 200mi per re-fuelling, with an efficiency equivalent to 300 miles to the gallon.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hydrogen car to be ‘open source’.
What’s great about this story is that they’re trying to bring a complete solution to get past the usual naysaying about infrastructure, but also that they’re adopting an open and distributed development idea. This means that little companies can get in on the action and help build the infrastructure.
This is exactly how the internet works. Someone in their bedroom can build a server (I did) and get skills and work with the internet. In the same way there is a much lower barrier to entry for this. Maybe not hydrogen fueling in bedrooms, but possibly people making hydrogen available from their house from surplus electricity from their solar panels or wind turbines, solving the whole too much energy being generated problem.
Open-ness is the only way the future can get here sooner..
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