Green Thursday: Hydrogen 7 BMW
We’re quite the media trawlers here at AutomotiveBlogger.net this week, but that’s not because we have nothing to say. It’s because beginning Monday we’ll be having longer, linkier, posts, with a couple of shared projects in the works with some fellow 451press.net bloggers.
In the meantime, for Green Thursday, we want to talk about Hydrogen, and while for many of us of a certain age, that brings strains of Smash Mouth’s “Walkin’ on the Sun” into our minds, for the folks at BMW hydrogen is a groovy new fuel source: totally clean, and the by-product is water.
Hydrogen cells aren’t ready for mass-market use yet, but we like that the performance car makers are getting into the mix with alternative energy sources. The Hydrogen 7 BMW is making its official debut at the Rome Film Festival. Tell Mr. DeMille it’s ready for a close-up:
April 8th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
This blog is ancient. You talk about BMW as an innovator. You forget that Honda is working on the Insight. It will be powered by a fuel cell that will never have to be replaced like the nickel-metal hydride batteries used in the Toyotas. This is the best, most practical, zero emission vehicle coming to market.