300 MPG Riversimple Urban Car Open-Sources Its Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech

I would use it to drive to work. If leasing would cost me similarly to my car costs, it would be good enough.

I would use it to drive to work too... if they show me what would happen if one of the crazys out there decided to hit me in a head on, or T-bone collision.

My guess @ 772 pounds vs. 4500 in a full size pickup, is it would make for an interesting PopSci article.

I can only imagine these things would be cheeeap. If everyone started using them for commuting or errands, there'd be less risk of hitting a large car because there'd /be/ less large cars.

Not picking on jmfb_k7, because I have heard this before, but the "what if a full sized, two ton vehicle crashes into me" argument is old and lame. Motorcycles, scooters, etc. perform essentially the same (or worse) in crashes with much heavier vehicles. Yet they sell quite well and are used by a large number of people all over the world.

In terms of safety, I would expect it would still be much better than a motorbike or bicycle... and we still allow those on the road today.

dude, that is exactly what the world needs!

$32.5 millions? That's it??

Give it to them NOW!! This is Awesome!

sweet.

how many miles does it get on one tank?

Gary K ;It takes a great deal of Energy to bring Hydrogen to a state that it can be used for Energy,and to convert a Vehicle to operate on it.Gasoline can be safely converted into a Vapor that's 100 parts of Air to 1 part of Fuel.With this, even the largest SUV could easily get 50+ MPG, & emit a fraction of the Emissions of an EPA mandated 14.7/1 Air/Fuel Ratio.Do a search on Tom Ogle,& http://energy21.freeservers.com/bookrep.html & check out the bottom of the Page.But, when a Vehicle Emissions Test is done,Oxygen [O2] Exhaust Sensors must detect a level of pollution that would indicate 14.7/1.That's the Law.Thus, it is entirely possible to fail an Emissions Inspection for not generating enough pollution!My Photo is of a Vaporizer, ignited to prove that it works.Big Oil & Big Government have outlawed it,and Obama can't change it.If we are ever to get away from Oil, this has got to change!

That is awesome. Now if they could only make it look cool, then they would have buyers other than a limited number of hippies out in California

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As someone who builds and drives EV's every day this is not going to work cost effectively.

Why is the wheel motors, controllers have to be way to powerful, thus too costly, to start up a hill.

Next is there are no cost effective ultracaps being 100x's or more than Lithium batteries.

Fool cells are so ineff only going 1/4 the distance on the same base fuel as a battery EV. H2 gal equivalent is over $10 not including it's storage container.

Now had they said a single motor with a good reduction gear so the motor could get enough rpm to make power, torque cost effectively and used lithium, Nicad or even lead batteries with maybe a 5hp ICE generator for extended range then yes I'd say great.