The car of the VERY near future

Brock Landers · May 21, 2008

http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/

Fuck gas and this bullshit going on with market manipulation and speculation run wild, Gas cars will soon go the way of the Doh Doh bird..

I think i VERY wise investment will be a hydrogen fueling station

Doug · May 21, 2008

sounds good, but there may be a catch ?

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/05/ma_375_01.html

Doug · May 21, 2008

Looks like Honda loses a ton on each one now, at 300k apiece.

http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/press/

Can they get this down to 30k ?

What would it cost to refuel ?

Doug · May 22, 2008

Let me look at this way:

You buy a conventional car for 25k, it gets 25mpg, and lasts 200k miles.

You'd need 8,000 gallons of gas at say $5 a gallon= 40k

So 65k for the car and gas

How much for the hydrogen car purchase and refueling it ?

It needs to be under that 65k, IMO !

guitarjosh · May 22, 2008

We're still about 10 years from hydrogen technology being able to be mass produced.

woodog22 · May 22, 2008

Big oil companies/government will delay this movement as much as possible.

Every should watch Who killed the electric car?

Brock Landers · May 22, 2008

guitarjosh said:
We're still about 10 years from hydrogen technology being able to be mass produced.

the skyrocketing price of oil will fast track Hydrogen fuel cells, its very much inevitable. And then we can tell places like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to Fuck off and die, don't need you anymore..

macb · May 22, 2008

it's also going to fast track solar technology. do a search on nano-solar technology and solar fuel cells, good stuff:toast:

Doug · May 22, 2008

I think it will take a good while ( 5+ years) to get here. I haven't seen any prediction of what it will cost to refill/recharge ( whatever) on these. The vehicle cost has to be competitive also.

Hybrids are kinda of a wash right now, cost a lot more than a Civic or similar, for not that much better mileage.

A lot of these things that were supposed to take over, never did:

metric system ( except for dope dealers)
electric car
cashless society
mass transit
etc.