Comments on: Hydrogen-Powered Scorpion Creeping Towards Prototype

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:27:10 +0000

I saw the car. (unveiled at SEMA). So I guess the steps are getting bigger!
It did run. And it looked INCREDIBLE.
If the system performs 10% as good as it looks it will be a home run.

By: Joost

Joost — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:11:47 +0000

The development of the technology for both electric and hydrogen vehicles will accelerate in the coming years. Storage, initial cost, mileage, radius and all other problems will be resolved for the simple reason that they have to be. More important in my opinion is the question who will fill your “tank”: the current oil companies (soon: hydrogen companies) or the electricity companies. It’s all about distribution and making lots of money, not about the last technical problems.

By: Jeff M

Jeff M — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:51:51 +0000

The next generation of lithium batteries using the lithium iron oxide nano-assembly should provide much more durability. These are being built for the Chevy Volt concept as well as others such as the Hymotion Prius plug-in hybrid upgrade. Tesla probably has these batteries on their up-and-coming list, you can’t ignore them, they’ll be cheaper than regular lithium cobalt batts and better in so many ways. Just a matter of ramping up production of them.

By: Timbo Slim

Timbo Slim — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:27:52 +0000

How many Ferrari’s ever get 100k miles?

By: CNCMike

CNCMike — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:04:20 +0000

Jim

Add in the oil, oil filters, trans fluid and filters, belts, hoses, coolant, plugs, wires, MAF sensors and all the other suff that a typical gas car will consume and then let us the cost per mile.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:50:22 +0000

Tony,

The should use renewable methane instead of hydrogen. That's enables them to use NG as well.

I wish Tesla well, but a $20,000 battery good for 100,000 miles means 20 cents per mile in expense for JUST the battery. Compare this with a typical vehicle getting 30 mpg using $4 gasoline. That's only 13 cents per mile; and you get to pay as you go.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:12:44 +0000

Jim - What's dumb about what tesla is doing? The tesla roadster goes 0-60 in 4 secs. It must be doing something right.

I do question how realistic hydrogen is as a fuel source. From what I've heard (from who killed the electric car and a few other sources) it doesn't really work to well. I do hope to be proved wrong though.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:52:25 +0000

Building a sports car whose IC engine runs on hydrogen is ALMOST as dumb as running one on a bunch of laptop batteries stuck together…. (just being a little grumpy today)