zobeid
I agree with you completely.

Although an interesting science project what good is the Sequel? If any car needed to go the scrap yard this one does.
It cant be delivered even in the near (less than 5 year) future. Why does GM waste time and brain cells
on this?

Seems like nothing more than GM avoiding the fact that the EV1 needs to come back in some form powered by LiIon.

Bob

Hydrogen is a promising fuel. However there has to be a combined effort to have the fuel in the neighbourhood to have the innovators and the environmentalist purchasing these products.

AN EV is probaby much more feasible at this point in time. If we need to adjust to cars than have (at least for the short term) 100-150 mile ranges with longer recharge times then we care for, then we must adjust.

If hydrogen is to be a major factor, advances in solar energy need to be made. It would be great to have my own hydrogen generating station incorporated into a solar powered home electrical system.

The only way hydrogen will work efficiently is if we generate it directly from solar (without generating solar electricity and using electrolysis). My understanding is that direct solar hydrogen research is still in the early stages. Anyone heard of any breakthroughs lately? One more hurdle for hydrogen. But who knows if big oil sinks enough money into it maybe they can make it work. Desperation is the father of invension.

"GM why hydorgen?" It's called Vaporware. It was perfected during the Dot.com era. When your competitor has a product that you can't match, you announce that you have an even better product. It will be available "any day now"

sidestepping the never-ending hydrogen vs. EV conversation, i'd like to mention that both toyota and honda have had "driveable" hydrogen cars for probably at least 5-10 years. that and the honda FCX is actually undergoing CONSUMER testing right now.

for recharging the cell can't we insert petrol or diesel engine(current developed during sparking action)

"GM taking heat for the EV1"?
Filmmaker Chris Paine is an idiot ripping off young
and naiive paranoids with his piece of garbage "documentary." He isn't even aware that the EV1 was an vehicle that did not meet federal safety regulations and
had to be leased (not that anyone would have paid the $60K price), and then recovered by GM at the end of the lease. And he wonders why GM crushed the cars!! The car couldn't get you out of the county and back and takes 10 hours to recharge and Paine thinks the EV1 was a great concept!! The EV1 user is paying over $3000 per year for batteries when gas cost $400 for 10,000 miles, and Paine thinks the EV1 made "good economic sense." !!!
Paine thinks there were "thousands " of eager customers. GM was able to find about 400 willing (and stupid enough) to sign a lease. Paine is a big liar,
his movie pure fantasy. It's amusing that so many
viewers , who are paranoid and skeptical about most
everything, swallow the wildly implausible theories
this potboiler throws against the wall. Now I see why 90% of the public thinks we've been visited by aliens.
A nation of fools.

The Sequel is like its predecessors, the Hywire and AUTOnomy, a Rube Goldberg contraption of monstrous purportions. GM will never mass produce any vehicle that incorporates hydrogen fuel cell, drive-by-wire controls and in-wheel electric motors. These GM prototypes are lemons.

GM knows that Plug-in Hybrids are by far the most promising technology, and oppose them for profit-oriented reasons:

Plug-in Hybrids will be reliable for many miles and years beyond standard vehicles. Their inherent safety features add to this reliability, (GM has no regard for public safety).

The Plug-in battery pack is a threat to the profits of GM's bedpartners in the oil and energy corporations. Having such a household power supply provides an education in energy conservation and invaluable in an emergency, and one step away from public power; not something that enhances Enronian Monopoly Utility Corporation stockholder's Dickensian dreams.

The Plug-in Hybrid has the potential to direct development of local and regional economies, whereby travel via walking, bicycling and mass transit become viable alternatives. Plug-in Hybrid technology is a very real threat to the completely unsustainable and hegemonic global economy.

Tear out all the FC crap, fill the same area with li-poly's and you'd have a 3-400mi EV - what's so hard about that? They have all the other stuff they need already there! Why wouldn't they want to offer a non-hydrogen version that could be build and driven *now*? I'll give you three guesses... (but kent can go back to watching the O'Reilly factor and listening to Rush)

"Tear out all the FC crap, fill the same area with li-poly's and you'd have a 3-400mi EV - what's so hard about that? "

If it is so easy, why don't you and your friends do it? :) The facts are that li-po's, just like PV's, are too expensive by a factor of four. For example, the battery pack in the Tesla costs $30,000.

"..go back to watching the O'Reilly factor and listening to Rush"

If you think that they are war-mongering hypocrits who want others to fight their wars, I agree.

Roger, Thank you for all that tech info.

" So, for a total weight of ~1300 lbs of air and tank weight, the Sequel would be lucky if it can even go as far as 60-70 miles at 30 mph. "

I assume that you meant to say, MDI cat car, not "Sequel". A 60-70 mile range sounds very good to me.
Especially with no expensive batteries to replace.

By contrast, the tesla battery pack costs $30,000 and weighs about 1000 pounds. And, no one knows how long the batteries will last.

"MDI (www.theaircar.com) has made a lot of wonderful projections, but has delivered none of it two years after their promised public launch date."

That is the problem, no beef. I read that their test car only went seven miles on a full charge. And that was three years ago.

Interesting,

We have heard so many different breakthoughs in alternative energy powered engines, but still, nothing even close to on the road. Regi/Reg Industries has the most novel approach for engine design as it will run on any fuel, not just hydrogen, or ethanol or whatever. Seems to me to be the most logical new engine technology as it produces twice the power at half the size of conventional I.C.E power, which will equate to better economy and less polution, so we shall see who is first to market.

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A camshaft made that would fit in the existing cam area of an internal combustion engine
That would open the exhaust valve to drivethe piston down with pressure and the intake valve to exhaust air as the piston comes up and vice versa,the oil viscosity lowered,air put into the exhust manifold and vented from theintake manifold or vice versa .An iternal combustion engine could be run off of air.Pressure in the tank would be 8000 PSI with a regulator to lower it to 1000PSI.
Thank You
Jay

To make camshaft based up on the combustion cycle
2 lobes for each existing lobe or double the rpm of the cam shaft. and grind down the intake cam
Intake lobe to be .010 in with 6 degrees of rotation opening
Exhaust same lobe structure

At 500 psi the opening would be a lobe .010 in 12 degrees rotation.
A cubic foot of liquid air has about the energy of a gallon of gas and weighs 60 lbs.
A cubic foot of liquid air cost about 50 cents worth of energy.

Studies by DOE were done in 1999 and 2000 by University of Washington,And Texas with liquid nitrogen and Garst air motors with favorable energy saving results.Drawbacks
were storage, and training.