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Thanks for the Fox post Tony.

My comments:
Part 1 * Hydrogen
They admitted the $1Mill each car cost and touched on the difficulty of a fueling infrastructure -good for them.
They showed a still shot of the Hindenberg. Knowing it's a local TV report they must have wanted to show the flaming disaster so bad they could spit. The reporter did ask more than one question of the car's owner feeling safe.

Part 2
2nd time see that Volt video. Lame-slow My E golf cart could beat that thing down the street. They should have made it look like the footage was shot in slow motion.

Part3
The Tesla gets perfunctory coverage compared to Wright’s car and Phoenix’s SUV. Kind of odd because they are the only ones who got the investors and have sold cars
Nice to see the Altair Nano batts in operation.
How did they miss the Ebox? San Dimas is just as close to LA as Ojai.

Part4
I was put off by the Honda guy’s comments so I watched him again and technically he's right about Electric cars my angst was cooled when they cut to a series of folks bashing fuel cells.
The closing comments said the cars covered were two years away (and longer) but they had mentioned earlier the Tesla was due out this year.

It's funny at the end they referenced an old car-tech show from 5 years before when things were so close to happening in alternate transportation. Are we perpetually in childhood BEV birthday-eve and we can't sleep because of all the wonderful things we asked for are going to be ours in the morning? Or is this really the year of the BEV?

I'm out of the country but I Tivo'd the Future Cars show, I'll comment when I see it, meanwhile, my wife liked the Tesla :)

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ARGH! hydrogen Hydrogen HYDROGEN! That is all I ever seem to hear when the media talks about the cars of the future. When that honda guy said that Fuel cells are clean in the production of hydrogen and in the usage of it, I got mad. I figure that alot of you already know how hydrogen is an inneficient pollution amplifyer, but in case you are unaware, i suggest reading The Hype About Hydrogen by Joseph J. Romm. It is a great read.

Inefficency and pollution aside, there is a saying about hydrogen. Hydrogen is the fuel of the future. And it always will be. In ten years it will still be the fuel of the future. In twenty years it will still be the fuel of the future.

Ok rant over.

I realy enjoyed the section on the Roadster on the futurecar show. However, the rest of it (at least the fuel episode) was horribly innaacurate. I cannot believe that they even mentioned perpetual motion (apperantly being serious), when they debunked it themselves on mythbusters!

Oh well, I guess my rant was not really over. :D

Takumi

+1

LA TIMES
“’People are not going to go through all the trouble of buying a hydrogen car, which is going to have all these limitations, when it won't even be as environmentally beneficial as a Toyota Prius when you consider the environmental cost of making that hydrogen fuel.’"

http://www.cool-companies.org/hydrogen/inthenews.cfm

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