lol, "zero emissions" is bs. What do they have to do to make the hyrdogen? Sure they can electrolyze it from water using enegery from solar or wind energy, but wind energy is limited geographically and solar energy is too expensive. I remember reading that to use solar energy to power electrolysis for enough hydrogen to be comparable in power to 1 gallon of gasoline would cost over $10. Imagine paying $10 a gallon for gasoline. You can get the hydroden by stripping it away from hydrocarbons... a bastard process that still creates plenty of emissions. The best way would be using a nuclear reactor... but you still have to deal with the waste.

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As far as clean sport cars go, I'd still prefer the Venturi, which is fully electric. Having to deal with hydrogen is cumbersome compared to the simple recharging with an electric plug.

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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).

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Oops, tried the wrong kind of link. Here it is as plain text:

http://www.h2cars.biz/artman/publish/article_763.shtml

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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