Video: The BMW Hydrogen 7 goes to Hong Kong
If you wanted to see more footage of the BMW Hydrogen 7, here's a nice video showing it on Hong Kong's old runway (Kai Tak). An editor from the Southern China Morning Post was taken for a ride and got a small lesson on how the BMW Hydrogen 7 works, its mileage, the different performance levels when running on gasoline or hydrogen and the unavailability and high cost of filling it up with the latter. Don't miss the segment on safety measures at the filling station.
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[Source: YouTube, h/t to James for the link]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
BlackbirdHighway 10:54AM (1/03/2008)
Maybe in 10 years or so, the number of refueling stations per continent will reach the double digits, then it might really take off.
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EVdriver 11:12AM (1/03/2008)
Hydrogen is already dead as a transportation fuel as well as BMW Hydrogen 7 (the most ridiculous implementation /ICE+H2/ of H2 usage).
http://www.efcf.com/reports/E21.pdf
http://www.efcf.com/reports/E17.pdf
"Hydrogen is the fuel of the future, and always will be." :)
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GreyFlcn 1:33PM (1/03/2008)
Why do you keep covering this car?
It's one of the dirtiest cars on the road.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,448648,00.html
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Chris M 11:56PM (1/03/2008)
Really interesting comment on that video: "In
Germany, hydrogen is 8 Euro a Kilogram", that makes H2 more than twice as expensive as petrol. Even in europe, that isn't cost competitive. That price is for industrial quantities of liquid H2. Somehow, they think that if demand goes up, the price will come down?
Of course, that means that with the horrible fuel milage of this car, driving on H2 is a very expensive way to travel. The BMW Hydrogen 7 has fuel milage so bad, I suspect someone at BMW is trying to sabotage the "hydrogen hiway" movement - and succeeding.
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