GREAT!

I'll drive my Prius down to my local GM dealer and take a Hy-Wire out for a test drive. How did your test drive go?

Bob Wilson

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LOL, I really like it. I like the concept, I like the interchangability of it, I like the by wire driving, and I like the steering wheel. (Though I'd prefer a tri plug so you can use your PS2, Xbox, or Gamecube controler to drive it. )

I'm not so fond of the Hydrogen power source, or the fact that once again, we're told it'll be 10-20 years before we see it on the road. (Yeah, I haven't heard that from Hydrogen for the past 15 years.)

Oh, and there's another video of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qow9r5yhhBo

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Didn't you watch the video?

Scientific American Frontiers had a few shows about alternative fuels and future car technology.

Here is one about Hydrogen Power:
http://www.pbs.org/saf/1506/

Nice work from GM. But it could be Toyota or Honda that offer that first Hydrogen Fuelled vehicle test-drive... we'll see...

Best Tank = 54.2 mpg (Sep. 9'06)
Best Trip = 61.9 mpg

The author, Joan Ogden claims that "fuel-cell vehicles . . . face fewer technical hurdles . . ." (pp. 94.) Then she goes on to report:

1) Short fuel cell life - "current automotice PEM fuel cells last only about 2,000 hours" (pp. 97)

2) Cost - "handmade specialty items that cost about $1 millon apiece." (pp. 97)

3) Storing - ". . . large, high-pressure cylinders" or liquid at "-423 degrees Fahrenheit" (pp. 97)

4) Safety - ". . . a much wider range of concentrations of hydrogen is flammable . . ." (pp. 98)

5) Supply - ". . . hydrogen is obtained from the high-temperature processing of natural gas and petroleum." (pp. 99)

6) Cost - ". . . the current costs for producing hydrogen using these methods [electrolysis and biomasss gassification, RJW] are high: $6 to $10 per kilogram. " (pp. 99)

The article remains as accurate today as were the same facts and data decades ago. Meanwhile, I continue to commute daily in my hybrid electric.

Bob Wilson

Operation Iraqi Oil Freedom:

Automatic, stock, project car.

My other 1500 cc car:

Automatic, stock, backup car.
Free speech, dialog and knowledge thrives without the poison of SPAM.

If anyone's in the NYC area, the Wired NextFest is coming up at the Javits Center from September 29-October 1st.

Their website mentions the HyWire, and a video from last year's transportation pavilion shows that the it was there.

Would-be hypermiler