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Hydrogen-powered cars are catching on with major automobile manufacturers, but will attempts to gain uneducated consumers in this new technology dissolve into thin air?
It appears this new method of powering cars is here to stay, although it looks to be a slow process for it to take the whole world by storm.
Hydrogen cars are gaining support from federal and state governments in the United States because of the drastic increase in gas prices, and the growing threat to our environment from emissions released by fossil fuel. President Bush and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have campaigned with the promise of allocating funds to the development of the hydrogen-powered car business.
Mercedes-Benz, Ford, General Motors, Honda and Hyundai have already developed hydrogen cars. Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagon also have hydrogen fuel cell cars in development.
Hummer released a model that can be converted to hydrogen power with a price tag of $60,000 in addition to the retail price of the vehicle.
Buyers can expect to purchase expensive models – most more than $150,000 – until mass production sets in. Leaders in the industry believe that might not take shape for the next 10 to 20 years.
The cost to build a hydrogen fill station in California is close to $600,000. Schwarzenegger announced his intentions to install hydrogen filling stations every 20 miles along major highways in the state before 2010, but analysts believe that goal is too ambitious because of the cost.
The natural environment would benefit from increased usage of hydrogen-powered fuels, but until a majority of motorists utilize this new form of technology, the pollution emitted from fossil-fueled cars will dominate the air. So the hydro-car buyer in the next couple of years can be assured that his or her vehicle is keeping the air clean, but that will be negated by the neighbor’s gas-guzzling SUV.
Researchers and scientists fear that hydrogen-powered vehicles will lose public-interest momentum the longer they are not widely visible in the market. However, government officials, like Bush and Schwarzenegger, understand any form of energy deviating from the reliance on imported oil or gas can boost the economy. The support to fund development in this project is bipartisan and widespread.
Given this fact, and the reality that our natural environment will not improve in its current state, interest in further developing the hydrogen-powered vehicle will increase as the years go by instead of decrease.
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Hydrogen Internal Combustion

Hydrogen internal combustion engine cars are different from hydrogen fuel cell cars. The hydrogen internal combustion car is a slightly modified version of the traditional gasoline internal combustion engine car. These hydrogen engines burn fuel in the same manner that gasoline engines do.
Francois Isaac de Rivaz designed in 1807 the first internal combustion engine on hydrogen Paul Dieges patented In 1970 a modification to internal combustion engines which allowed a gasoline powered engine to run on hydrogen US patent 3844262.
Mazda has developed Wankel engines that burn hydrogen. However the major car companies such as Daimler Chrysler and General Motors are investing in the more efficient hydrogen fuel cells instead.
From Wikipedia

Hydrogen Vehicle

A hydrogen vehicle is a vehicle that uses hydrogen as its on-board fuel for motive power. The term may refer to a personal transportation vehicle, such as an automobile, or any other vehicle that uses hydrogen in a similar fashion, such as an aircraft. The power plants of such vehicles convert the chemical energy of hydrogen to mechanical energy (torque) in one of two methods: combustion, or electrochemical conversion in a fuel-cell:
In combustion, the hydrogen is burned in engines in fundamentally the same method as traditional Internal Combustion Engine cars.
In fuel-cell conversion, the hydrogen is reacted with oxygen to produce water and electricity, the latter of which is used to power an electric traction motor.

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