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Morgan developing zero-emissions sports car

Posted Jul 5th 2005 10:00AM

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morganaero8 The LIFEcar, currently being developed by Morgan on the Aero8 platform, will be a hydrogen fuel cell-powered sports car capable of delivering the speed and handling of its gas-powered counterparts. The development of the car is being partly funded by Britain's Department of Trade and Industry and involves some of the country's best engineering firms. One trick this clean car will employ is the use of powerful capacitors that can store and rapidly release enough energy to make being an environmentally conscious driver fun. A prototype of the LIFEcar is expected in two to three years.

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mikkie

I'm starting to wonder... should this be affordable?

September 06 2005 at 2:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tim

That car body looks F-ing sweet. I love the classic car look. Its good to see people still trying to work on helping out the environment. I know hybrid automobiles are getting some flack these days. As far as development goes, they are also working on a sports car that goes in the water called the GIbbs Aquada: http://www.associatedcontent.com/content.cfm?content_type=article&content_type_id=4402 This is pretty neat.

July 20 2005 at 4:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cowboy bob

Odograph---Forget it. This is just childish. This forum isn't ment for this crap.

July 06 2005 at 7:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

odograph

You know, in twenty-some years of science and engineering I have never heard a real live engineer use words like "your obvious limited intellect." It doesn't quite ring true.

July 05 2005 at 10:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cowboy bob

Odograph-----I have seven United States Patents in my name. I am sorry your personal flying car is not one of them, however when you enjoy some of your life's conviences not available to your parents, I may have been involved. I am not patting my own back, but think you are offbase to attack me with your obvious limited intellect. If you are an engineer as you claim, I suspect it will be temporary.

July 05 2005 at 7:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

odograph

So rollie, where's my jetpack? Where's my flying car? Where's my lunar colony? Where's my cure for the common cold? Where's my fusion power plant? Where's my superconducting high-tension wires (and motors and batteries)? Where's my ... I am an engineer, I just understand the difference between problems we can get our arms around, and pie-in-the-sky promises. Yes, we will absolutely get surprising new developments. I also predict they will be in left-field domains, where not so many people are working. Progress in well-understood, and well-funded, problem domains is slow hard work. And just because we want a solution, that doesn't mean we'll get one. Engineering is not magic.

July 05 2005 at 1:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cowboy bob

The furure is seldom heralded by those of lesser insight. The hurdles we see will be surmounted by intellect not apparent to us at this time. The past is littered with naysayers run over by the "breakthru" inventions of determined minds. The distribution network may be the biggest problem, as I doubt the oil companies will exactly embrace the conversion.

July 05 2005 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lrxst

Liquid hydrogen is a great way to store energy. While we need to work out the efficiencies of creating electricity from solar, etc, that does not mean we should abandon research on hydrogen vehicles in the meantime.

July 05 2005 at 1:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

odograph

Oops, tried the wrong kind of link. Here it is as plain text: http://www.h2cars.biz/artman/publish/article_763.shtml

July 05 2005 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

odograph

There is an important difference between a "prototype" and a "concept car." The first (prototype) refers to the first example, from which production models are then drawn. The sad thing is that promoters of a "hydrogen economy" can produce new "prototypes" every year, without anything more than a vague promise of honest production in a few more decades. In the case of this Morgan, this other article is up-front about it being a "concept car" funded by industry and government (at a cost of $3.3 Million US Dollars).

July 05 2005 at 12:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply