BMW to roll out hydrogen-powered 7 Series
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Tue Sep 12, 6:33 AM ET
MUNICH (Reuters) - BMW will roll out the world's first hydrogen-burning car in serial production early next year, the German premium automaker said on Tuesday, eager to put its stamp on cars with green credentials.
The specially equipped 7-Series executive cars emit only water vapor when running on hydrogen.
The car hits the market next April and will be shown at the Los Angeles car show in November, the company said. It had said in March the hydrogen cars would arrive within two years.
BMW has said it intends to build a few hundred such cars at first. They will be able to switch between burning standard petrol and hydrogen so that drivers will not be left stranded while the infrastructure to deliver hydrogen is built up.
BMW unveiled the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car at the 2004 Paris auto show. Dubbed the H2R, it can exceed 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour and reaches 100 km per hour from a standing start in around six seconds.
While BMW is developing fuel-cell driven cars as well, it says it is concentrating on the combustion engine because the sum total of its features and characteristics offers the largest number of advantages and benefits all in one.
http://www.bmwusa.com/hydrogen
Dubbed the Hydrogen 7, the specially equipped 7-Series executive cars emit only water vapor when running on hydrogen. That means zero emissions of pollutants and carbon dioxide, a gas that many scientists tie to global warming
MUNICH (Reuters) - BMW will roll out the world's first hydrogen-burning car in serial production early next year, the German premium automaker said on Tuesday, eager to put its stamp on cars with green credentials.
The specially equipped 7-Series executive cars emit only water vapor when running on hydrogen.
The car hits the market next April and will be shown at the Los Angeles car show in November, the company said. It had said in March the hydrogen cars would arrive within two years.
BMW has said it intends to build a few hundred such cars at first. They will be able to switch between burning standard petrol and hydrogen so that drivers will not be left stranded while the infrastructure to deliver hydrogen is built up.
BMW unveiled the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car at the 2004 Paris auto show. Dubbed the H2R, it can exceed 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour and reaches 100 km per hour from a standing start in around six seconds.
While BMW is developing fuel-cell driven cars as well, it says it is concentrating on the combustion engine because the sum total of its features and characteristics offers the largest number of advantages and benefits all in one.
http://www.bmwusa.com/hydrogen
Dubbed the Hydrogen 7, the specially equipped 7-Series executive cars emit only water vapor when running on hydrogen. That means zero emissions of pollutants and carbon dioxide, a gas that many scientists tie to global warming
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And how much will that go for? It's unfortunate that to save the enviroment the cost to do so is completley out of reach for the majority of people. Hopefully that will change as the technology becomes more advanced.
+1. New technology is always expensive. It will go down in time though.
I'm going to buy this the day it hits the market:
http://world.honda.com/news/2006/4060108FCX/
probably about 30% more than the regular 7 series.
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I'm glad BMW is leading the way with this because unlike toyota, BMW will only build great cars, fast,safe and all that stuff.
the toyota prius (for example) is just a temp fix to satisfy americans, the prius itself is low quality and well, just not a very good car. Toyota only made them because they know they'll make quick money off of consumers. Hydrogen-powered cars are the future. A clean, fast driving future
and since I race cars, I'm stoked.
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so close to the 120 - 130 range? Wow, that's actually pretty reasonable for the first production car and switches from hydro to petrol and it does 185, nice. I'm very interested in this, once they work out more bugs, I'm sure it will find it's way down to the 3 series and VW. Good stuff, thanks for the info.
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but of course it'll face resistance from huge corporations (ahem oil/government) that'll try to slow this progress down. Perhaps by blocking hyrdogen stations from coming up? I dunno, thing's like that.
But yeah, it's a big step forward.
Oil corporations can't block hydrogen stations from coming up. They can only block you from forcing them to sell hydrogen.
The next 3 series for sure will offer hydrogen-powered engines, so that's just about 5 years away which is'nt too far off.
Then the prices will be in the 40-50k range.
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hmm yeah probably along those lines, but remember, oil corps have huge huge huge amounts of money, I'm sure they'll find ways to slow the progress of hydrogen stations from popping up around around town, don't you think so?
But we'll see what happens in the next couple years. Time will tell.
Indirectly, yes. But Exxon isn't going to be able to stop me from putting a hydrogen processor in my driveway short of killing me. And I don't think that's going to happen.
Yep.
hehehe, well I guess you could do that, unless of course then government?/state?/city? draw up a huge list of permits one may need to attain to get such a system in ones home, so making it very very very difficult and perhaps costly. you never know.
But again, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm just throwing out some situations that we may have to deal with one day.
Considering the direction this country is headed in, yes I never know. But I still think it's pretty unlikely.