Are we ever going to have hydrogen cars?

Question

Are the oil companies going to do what they can in order to keep us buying gas?

Answer 1

If you're interested, they alanyze this with detail in a documentary called Who Killed The Electric Car? (Which is really a great film!)

However, I found this on Wikipedia, it's an outline of what the movie discussed regarding hydrogen powered vehicles:

The hydrogen fuel cell was presented by the film as an alternative that distracts attention from the real and immediate potential of electric vehicles to an unlikely future possibility embraced by automakers, oil companies and a pro-business administration in order to buy time and profits for the status quo. The film backs up the claim that hydrogen vehicles are a mere distraction by stating that "A fuel cell car powered by hydrogen made with electricity uses 3 to 4 times more energy than a car powered by batteries" and by interviewing the author of The Hype About Hydrogen, who lists 5 problems he sees with hydrogen vehicles (these are his paraphrased claims, along with exact quotations):

1. Current fuel cell cars cost an average of $1,000,000. This cost, in his words, "has gotta drop."

2. Current materials cannot store enough hydrogen in a reasonable space to "give you the range people want."

3. Hydrogen fuel is "wildly expensive." In his words "even hydrogen from dirty fossil fuels is two or three times more expensive than gasoline."

4. The need for an entire new fueling infrastructure. He claims "someone's gonna have to build at least ten or twenty thousand hydrogen fueling stations, before anybody is going to be interested."

5. Competing technologies will improve over time as well. "You have to hope and pray that the competitors in the marketplace don't get any better. Because right now the best car in the marketplace just got a lot better, the hybrid vehicle..."

So, to answer your question, probably not!  :(

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Well it's not going to happen overnight. We need something ASAP. No matter what kind of energy we need it's something that is going to take years and years. By that time gas can be 20 bucks a gallon.

Answer 3

I hope not.  Imagine every car being a mini Challenger.

Oil companies will distribute hydrogen, as oil contains more hydrogen than other sources.  You think you'll end Big Oil, but you'll only give them more profits

Answer 4

I don't want to ride in a hydrogen car or have a crash with one. The oil Co, doesn't need to do anything, Test yourself; See how little oil or gas or the products made from oil u could live without.

Answer 5

Chevrolet has already built hydrogen powered cars along with many other companies, they are all being stored in top secret warehouses right now until there isn't any oil left.  The truth is the upper 1% of the country who basically control the government own the oil companies and would lose money if hydrogen cars became available as a result the US will wait till its economy is in shambles from the ever growing oil prices to allow hydrogen powered vehicles to go on the market.

Answer 6

When is the last time you saw a network of hydrogen fueling stations?  Never.  No governments in the US are willing to put up the money to build one.  They want oil and car companies to do it.  Car companies refuse to build hydrogen cars if there is nowhere to refuel them.  Oil companies wont build one if there are no cars that need hydrogen.  In both cases its a money losing situation.

Answer 7

Hydrogen cars may become economically feasible when gas approaches $10 or $15 per gallon.  When do you think that is going to be?

Answer 8

How should we know were not pyschic.But if they want us to keep buying gas they need to lower their goddamn prices