On 23/04/2014 10:51, wrote:
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 6:35:02 AM UTC+1, harry wrote:
http://pixelbark.com/13045/how-the-d...bustion-engine

There are lots of engine designs with advantages. But almost none of them see the light of mass production. After weeding out the 99% that have some sizeable downside, the level of investment and experience needed before a car manufacturer would trust their business to a new engine design is excessively large. Car engine design is not a good area to invent in.


NT



The most important engine design for future of the car is the Honda FCX
Clarity approach ...
Hydrogen fuel cell ... has the benefits of hardly any noise, no
batteries, zero emissions ... and 61mpg


Exists is in production and out with users in California ...
Hydrogen is manufactured at point-of-sale pumps, just storing enough
Hydrogen for next couple of fills ... so no bulk storage issues.
Honda also developing home Generation stations for you to produce your
own Hydrogen.

Fixes the problem of the benefit of electric drive and the problem of
battery weight & charging - no charging & no batteries.

Hydrogen no longer needing to be stored as super cooled liquid, with
insulation issues.

Government was in talks with Honda UK to subsidies installation of
Hydrogen fuel filling points along M4 corridor ... to kick-start this,
not sure of current status.

Hydrogen is the easiest gas to manufacture and is in unlimited supply
(water) ... for the eco tree huggers, you could use wind/wave/solar to
provide the electricity required for electrolysis.

Saw a programme on this car ... it's no concept now on sales, looks
pretty similar to Civic, not like a milk float.

http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/



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