Hydrogen Vehicles - Cars Trucks SUV's

Hydrogen vehicles are the future for our highways. In fact, President George W. Bush has said that hydrogen highways are the future for the United States. Hydrogen vehicles means having H2 cars, trucks, SUV's, minivans, buses and large 18-wheeler trucks running along the roadways, spewing out, well, steam.

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Hydrogen vehicles will most likely come in three varieties: fuel cell vehicles (FCV's), internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles or hybrid hydrogen-electric vehicles. With recently breakthroughs in hybrid technology especially in the area of battery storage and high-torque electric motors, the most likely scenario is that the hydrogen vehicles of the future will, at least in the beginning, be a sort of hydrogen ICE or FCV hybrid mix.

Now, if you're thinking that hydrogen cars and vehicles are 25 years off, think again. All the major automobile manufacturers already have some sort of hydrogen vehicle prototype or concept car on the road or in the works. Ford, GM, Toyota, BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, Nissan, Volkswagen, Honda and Mercedes all have hydrogen cars they have shown off at various car shows or functions.

BMW even has a hydrogen-gasoline hybrid race car called the BMW H2R that has set over eight land-speed records for hydrogen cars including a top speed of 185 mph. The BMW H2R sports a 6.0 litre V12 combustion engine, adapted for hydrogen to meet the speedway requirements and accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in just 6 seconds. With the flip of a switch you can turn off the hydrogen going into the ICE engine and turn on the gasoline that works equally as well in the same engine.

Now, when President Bush announced the hydrogen highway system, what did California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger do? Arnie did two things. First, he announced plans to put hydrogen fuel stations all up and own the West coast so that hydrogen vehicles had a place to gas up and the mobility to move around the west. Second, he convinced General Motors to build a Hydrogen Hummer or H2H as they like to call it as one of the first and certainly the most dramatic H2 vehicles to drive around the Los Angeles area.

Besides the H2H, GM has come out with a prototype hydrogen minivan called the GM HydroGen3, Hyundai has an hydrogen SUV named the Santa Fe FCEV and Toyota has a FCHV-BUS1, a low-floor city bus, powered by a high-pressure hydrogen fuel-cell hybrid system, developed jointly with Hino Motors, Ltd. Do you still think hydrogen vehicles are 25-years away from being a reality?

Right now several inventors have come up with hydrogen generators for cars that help gasoline-powered engines burn more cleanly, use less gas and decrease emissions as well. And, this is just a start.

Its true that a lot of work still needs to be completed for full hydrogen cars and vehicles. Hydrogen needs to be produced at a commercially reasonable price, storage and distribution has to be worked out and available at fueling stations nationwide and beyond. Fuel cell technology, battery technology and other supporting technologies have to be improved and the price has to come down into a reasonable range for consumers to buy the vehicles. This is all very attainable, though as you will see by reading the pages on the rest of this site.