Hydrogen-Powered BMW 7 Series

Sunday, Dec. 3 2006 | Author: J. Angelo Racoma

What are the most common elements in the universe? Of course, it’s hydrogen and stupidity! Seriously, we’re being too dependent on fossil fuels, and now that I’ve started driving again, I can feel the pressure of having to deal with rising gas prices.

Sure, electric and hybrid cars can help you save up on fuel, but sometimes the performance is just not there. And having to plug in to recharge your car can be quite a drag–and it adds to the electric bill, too! I think it’s a better alternative is to use a more readily-available resource, instead. BMW has one such cool–literally cool!–car in the hydrogen powered BMW 7-series.

The company’s engineers heard that hydrogen will be the fuel of the future, so they took a 7-series sedan and converted it … The Hydrogen7 uses a completely different approach than a fuel-cell vehicle. BMW Vice President Dr. Timm Kehler told us that electric motors could [not? -ed] provide the performance that BMW demands, so the company worked out how to use hydrogen in an internal-combustion engine. The Hydrogen7 has hydrogen and gas tanks, and can switch between them, just in case you can’t find any hydrogen refueling stations.

What’s great, in my opinion, is that the hydrogen fuel works with the internal-combustion engine. It’s currently using a V6, but an inline 4-cylinder version is being developed. So this means this technology can potentially be adopted for use in other automobiles as well.

I just hope the development efforts for alternative fuel sources comes up with something marketable and widely-available in the near future. It’s even better if they can use something that’s as abundant in the universe, but not as difficult to acquire and store: stupidity!

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3 Responses for "Hydrogen-Powered BMW 7 Series"

Tironius

December 3rd, 2006 at 10:34 pm
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It is extremely difficult to create Hydrogen in a cost-effective manner, so no, it isn’t as abundant as you say. And yes, stupidity is an abundant product.
danny rho

December 3rd, 2006 at 11:31 pm
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Alternative fuel won’t be available soon not just because it’s hard to be done, but ppl don’t want it.

When I say ppl, I meant ppl who’s running oli
industry.

Some powerful ppl are involved in that business as we know.

They are making ton of money now, why would
they want something that can replace the source of their cash cow.

They will do ANYTHING to slow development of
alternative fuel unless they find a way to make money in that area too.
andy janson

December 6th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
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to best explain this ..this will not require any money but it will require several contacts in very high places to approach a series of industries that from 1919 to 1925 built a series of advanced [for the time ] production lines that had a byproduct that will strip the bonds off fresh water to release oxygen and hydrogen…the projects were cancelled in 1925 account of a ”runaway processes” that cracked the cast iron pipes of the era..i collect old technocal books and i have a 1938 book on the process..and the reasons it was cancelled ..yet today all the materal process can be overcome with ”off the shelf” parts and equipment to allow local hydrogen production and soon home hydrogen production at very low cost..cheaper then tap water is now ….to read what i am doing please goooogle ”andy janson hansard” a goverment group i was asked to appear before or phone me at home at 519-652-0285 in ontario canada thankyou andy