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Fuel Cell Car Goes Cross-Country

Posted by michael on from the batteries-not-included dept.

person-0.9a writes "CNN is currently running a story about Daimler-Chrysler's fuel-cell concept car completing a trek across America. The CNN article is more about the trip, but details about the vehicle can be found here."

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  1. DCX Also Has Directly Powered Hydrogen Car by zentec · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Last year, DCX was driving a directly powered hydrogen car all around Germany, but you never hear anything more about it.

    From what I remember, the car used liquified hydrogen and achieved normal speeds and fairly comparable mileage to gasoline. The only issue was keeping the liquid hydrogen cold.

    Initial rear-end crash tests on this car showed that this wasn't any more dangerous than gasoline nor more explosive.

  2. hybrids more practical by rakerman · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Personally I think in the near term, the introduction of the 2003 Hybrid Civic is going to have more impact.

    I think fuel cells are going to be more important in the near term for stationary power generation.