H2G0 - Corgi's cool new R/C fuel cell toy car
Who says fuel cell cars are years away? Okay, everyone. But fuel cells toy cars are here today! Recently, we told you about the toy maker Corgi making a new fuel cell toy car designed by the legendary Luigi Colani. Now, we have a picture of the car, H2Go, thanks to Toyology. There are several fuel cell toy cars currently on the market and even a remote control toy. The best looking is the H-Racer but it's not remote control. The remote control H-Cell costs $1,500 and is really a "Hobby Integration Kit."
Unveiled at the Nuremberg International Toy Fair in Germany, the H2Go has a cool design, remote control and costs just £130 ($256 US dollars). Corgin's CEO Michael Cookson says "This marks a new chapter in the global toy market. ... The H2GO is not only a fascinating miniature-scale, real-working fuel cell powered radio controlled toy that can be refuelled using plain water, but marks a change in how the toy industry will need to transform and adapt to a clean energy future." Who needs batteries when you got water and sun light?
Gallery: Corgi's Fuel Cell Car
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[Source: Toyology]
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alex9852 6:31PM (2/06/2008)
I really enjoy reading your blog, it always has great insight. But I am very frustrated with the fact that so few people are talking about presidential candidates and their thoughts on global warming. Now that it is down to just a few candidates I would think that this would be a bigger issue.
Live Earth just picked up this topic and put out an article ( http://www.liveearth.org/news.php ) live earth is also asking why the presidential candidates are not being solicited for their stance on the issue of the climate change. I just saw a poll on www.EarthLab.com that says people care a lot about what their next leader thinks of global warming. Does anyone know of another poll or other results about this subject?
Here is the page where I saw the EarthLab poll: http://www.earthlab.com/life.aspx. This is a pretty legit website; they are endorsed by Al Gore and the alliance for climate protection and they have a carbon footprint calculator. Does anyone have a strong opinion about this like I do? No matter what your political affiliation is or who you vote for this is an important issue for our environment, our economy and for homeland security.
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Lascelles Linton 7:22PM (2/06/2008)
alex9852, I posted a video of all the Reps talking about the California waiver and a day ago I posted a video of Ron Paul talking about ethanol. I know the fluffy stuff, this toy and celebrities, can roll a few eyes but I like this toy and I think these things matter. I promise to double my efforts to find more politics though. It's not totally our fault. They are not talking about or saying much new. A lot of politics these days is just repeating a script.
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A.Brien 9:20PM (2/06/2008)
Fuelcell cars are less complicated then internal combustion cars. A fuelcell car should cost less
then an equivalent car power by an ice(internal combustion engine) . You cannot sell a toy at that price with a gas engine but you can sell a fuelcell one. Plain water is the fuel of the futur. Any car with a fuelcell can have solar panels on top and make his fuel while standing
in sunlight. At night it can be plug to a windmill
for free fuel too.
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GreyFlcn 10:23PM (2/06/2008)
Heh, yes this really does represent Hydrogen vehicles pretty well.
Novel contraptions for people with more money than sense, who really don't care if it accomplishes anything beneficial.
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