Bmw debuts hydrogen-only version of the Bmw Hydrogen 7

carlover99 submitted on 04/04/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:02 AM
from: 4wheelsblog.com

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Bmw debuts hydrogen-only version of the Bmw Hydrogen 7

Bmw announced its latest competitor to the severe CO2 restrictions: the Bmw Hydrogen 7 mono-fuel. The car features a V12 internal combustion engine (ICE) engineered to run exclusively on hydrogen. The new vehicle delivers no CO2 and can be produced using renewable, clean technologies like solar, wind, geothermal, and bio-processes. Although today’s hydrogen is mainly derived from natural gas, hydrogen can and will be “green” from renewable and clean sources in the future. Read Article

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Audiphile - 4/4/2008 11:44:31 AM

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A great idea, if they can solve the infrastructure and cost problems. Kudos to BMW for at least trying, and good luck.

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07G35J - 4/4/2008 12:56:38 PM

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Ditto...

PresidentoftheUSNOTOBAMA - 4/4/2008 10:28:39 PM

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+1; but kudos for the effort!

I95SPEEDINGTICKETS - 4/5/2008 2:06:01 AM

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^^^^^Dont worry mate, in about 8 more months he will be ^^^^^^^^

MattB - 4/7/2008 12:39:21 PM

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I agree. Hydrogen can be a viable fuel if the current problems of cost and infrastructure can be solved.

answer - 4/4/2008 1:42:57 PMView My AgentSpace

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Very nice.

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Carboy - 4/4/2008 3:13:24 PMView My AgentSpace

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To be honest it's absoulutely brilliant. I mean if they had plenty of hydrogen stations right now, it would be selling like hotcakes in my view.

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Bored - 4/4/2008 4:44:04 PM

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Keep it BMW. The more alternative fuel vehicles available, the sooner alternative fuels will be common place.

(That goes for all MFGs. -- I don't want to be bother by the Toyota [nut jobs] fanboys!)

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Bored - 4/5/2008 4:33:16 AM

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@ GoObama08,

And if Toyota didn't have to put up with morons like yourself, they might be even further along.

huu76 - 4/4/2008 10:16:04 PM

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It's nice to see BMW finally listening to me. Maybe they'll fire Bangle next.

Come on now, this is stretching it a little though.
"V12...engineered to run exclusively on hydrogen" All they had to do was take out the gas tank to make it exclusive to hydrogen.

I can't believe how many people are suddenly realizing that "if only they had more hydrgoen stations" and gving credit to BMW as though they're pioneering this.
Honda took the FCX a step further and are developing home hydrogen stations, and most large cities now already have limited hydrogen capacity.
My guess at what would hold this back is the $200,000 price tag that BMW would throw on it (vs the FCX's 600/mth evaluation price right now)

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Homer008 - 4/5/2008 1:29:20 AM

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You forgot to mention $600 bucks also includes free maintenance and collision insurance.

validus00 - 4/6/2008 11:07:17 AM

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huu76 clearly knows nothing about cars. he doesn't even know that bangle doesn't design cars anymore.

i'm sure they "only" took out a gas tank to make it exclusive to hydrogen, because they didn't consider any tuning optimization to the engine to make the combustion more efficient and cleaner, right?

by adapting completely to hydrogen, the car now no longer burns any organic lubriants and now emits absolutely no co2.

and bmw did pioneer the hydrogen ice car technology, some 30 years ago. so clearly you don't know anything about cars, let alone car aesthetics and technology.

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