Honda Fuel Cell Concept with Home H2 Refueling

It doesn't come easy writes "Honda unveiled their next generation FCX fuel cell concept car, along with a home hydrogen generation filling station, at the Tokyo Motor Show this week. The car has a range of 350 miles (560 kms) using two separate 350 psi hydrogen storage tanks. The tanks use a newly-developed hydrogen absorption material that doubles their capacity without raising the required storage pressure and thus allows the concept vehicle to exceed the DOE's targeted driving range for hydrogen powered vehicles. The home refueling station uses natural gas to produce electricity, heat and hydrogen. Honda estimates that the HES system [will] lower by 50% the total running cost of household electricity, gas and vehicle fuel. As the FCX is a concept car, no mention of when the technology might be introduced in a real automobile or what it will eventually cost, but the advances demonstrated by the car are quite amazing."

Comments

Great

[HeetMyser]

And just when natural gas is getting so cheap, too....

Re:Great

[MrScience]

you'll get more bang for your buck
I hope that was unintentional. :)

What about the stickers and the exhaust tip?

[filesiteguy]

...so if I put some "powered by Honda" stickers around it, lower it, and add a cool exhaust tip, will it be fast just like a Civic?

Re:What about the stickers and the exhaust tip?

[schon]

...so if I put some "powered by Honda" stickers around it, lower it, and add a cool exhaust tip, will it be fast just like a Civic?

No, you'll need to add a 3' spoiler on the back and neon-green wipers.

Well, that's cool....

[trailerparkcassanova]

but it still doesn't fly.

Snow!

[Tribbin]

I can imagine, that when it freezes, your pimped & overtuned H2 car leaves behind a trail of snow when you burnout to impress bystanders!

Re:Let's stop treating the SYMPTOM

[MickLinux]

In that case, if you want walkable cities, you need to move to one of the ex-Soviet satellite states (like Lithuania or Latvia), and pick one of the smaller cities to live in.

A typical small city of 25000 there will have almost everything within 1/4 mile of your apartment, and most things within 1 block. Of course, nobody has space to sprawl out there, so then everybody *also* has a garden just outside the city, where they spend their weekends.

However, your US urban sprawl is itself just a symptom of high crime rates, and the high crime rates are in turn a symptom of people deifying wealth instead of God as He is. So if you think you can maintain that nice walkable city and leave God out, I'd say you're right only under two very temporary conditions: (1) you can get away with it for about 30 years until you create your own urban sprawl, or (2) you can get away with it for about 80 years if you're willing to resort to the tactics of Josef Stalin.