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June 11, 2014 Automotive News
LOS ANGELES (Bloomberg) -- Hyundai has started retail leasing of its hydrogen-powered Tucson crossover as the South Korean carmaker and competitors look to expand the market for alternative zero-emission electric vehicles.
The automaker said Tuesdays delivery of the small SUV to Tim Bush, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based insurance agent, is the first of a mass-produced fuel cell auto to a retail customer. The company is promoting the Tucson, already in fleets in Korea and Europe, with a $499-a-month lease in California that includes unlimited hydrogen refueling for three years.
Fuel-cell technology is not intended to replace electric vehicles, Dave Zuchowski, chief executive officer of Hyundais U.S. sales unit, said Tuesday at a Hyundai dealership in Tustin, Calif. We see it as the next electric vehicle, but with no compromises.
Hyundai will be followed in 2015 by Toyota and Honda in marketing hydrogen vehicles to drivers in California, Japan, Korea and Europe. The companies say that by making electricity needed for power on board, rather than storing it in batteries, fuel cell vehicles offer greater driving range and versatility than rechargeable cars such as the Nissan Leaf or the BMW i3 hatchback...
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This Hyundai will be fueled with hydrogen made from sewage-one thing the US still has in abundance.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3027144/this-new-hyundai-car-runs-on-the-poop-of-california-residents-and-the-fuel-is-free
New hydrogen fueling stations can be installed almost anywhere in just 48 hours. And if they are powered by solar panels the fuel is free (after the panels are paid for) and green! Watch a fueling station installation:
Twenty Hydrogen Myths- A peer reviewed white paper by noted environmentalist Amory Lovins: http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/E03-05_TwentyHydrogenMyths
Including Myth #3. Making hydrogen uses more energy than it yields, so its prohibitively inefficient
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)This is so incredible.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)no more oil required. No more smog.
Huge. Game changing. The biggest thing to happen to cars since cars were born.
Jack Nicholson knew how big this is.