[Healeys] Fuel Cells - Only one? No direct Healey content

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Mon Mar 21 09:10:06 MST 2011


In a message dated 3/21/11 8:40:00 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net 
writes:


> GM Hy-Wire Car
> 
> GM DOES IT, MASTERS HYDROGEN FUEL CELL FOR AUTOMOBILES ,
> 
> 
> NO GAS, NO BATTERIES. ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, AND HERE IT IS.
> 
> click below.
> 
> <http://www.flixxy.com/gm-hy-wire-concept-car.htm> GM Hy-Wire "Car of the
> Future"
> 

Noting that was produced in 2002, and suppposed to be in production by 
2010. Best laid plans???
In any case, drive by wire and multi-use chassis are still   concepts of 
the future, though everything except steering is now done by wire on most new 
cars. Fuel cells, on the other hand, are a reality. Mercedes-Benz is 
delivering 100 to customers in California this year. I drove one from New Orleans 
to San Antonio, as part of their 125-day around-the-world tour. The only 
problems are that we don't yet have a good way to produce the electricity needed 
to produce the hydrogen (or recharge our electric cars for that matter) 
especially since atomic energy is now off the table for another 20 years, and 
the power grids and gas station networks that we need to break free of 
gasoline are years in the future, even if we started building them today. 


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