Comments on: Mazda Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrids delivered to Hiroshima

By: Bonsa

Bonsa — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:39:13 +0000

We live in Western Australia our electricty and heating for our home is entirely from the sun. A roof mounted 2kw solar pv system does the job nicely. The system pays for itself after 6 or 7 years and lasts 20-25 years. Jekyl is right, think about the possibilities of never, ever having to show up at a filling station again.

By: Technofreak

Technofreak — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:33:04 +0000

lol…anti-spam = Tesla

Anyway, I do agree that unfortunately we will not see an alternative fuel/motive power source that is ‘free’ without some massive shift which sees us get stitched up some other way.

Hydrogen may seem like a good idea but the change across to using this fuel is massive!! Not going to happen anytime soon.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:44:42 +0000

Jeckyl,
you seriously arent implying that one day you will get something like power for your house or car for nothing are you?????

Nothing is ever free and in the case of solar panels, if one day they do come up with an affordable way of manufacturing them, dont for one minute think the government will let us harness the solar energy for nothing

By: lazybones

lazybones — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:21:17 +0000

very true, but politics plays a large roll here. And the oil companies don’t like any alternative they don’t produce. Remember car companies have been in partnership with the oil companies for years, so now the car companies are probably being careful not to upset them.

No Hydrogen cars at Frankfurt 2009 despite Toyota claiming they will have a production car in 2015….hmmmmmm

By: JEKYL & HYDE

JEKYL & HYDE — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:52:56 +0000

shak,

lets not forget electric,if its made by wind or solar,and when someone invents an affordable way of powering my home and car for nothing,i’m in…

By: Shak

Shak — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:10:55 +0000

I think the smart ones are using hybrids and all the other alternatives to make it look like their doing something, while the engineers sit back and develop means of getting hydrogen to the masses. It is the only truly renewable fuel.

By: Lexustime

Lexustime — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:31:38 +0000

Car companies need to sit down and work out where they are heading for fuel, it might be ok to develop: hybrid, electric, ethanol, diesel, LPG, petrol, hydrogen cars. But at one point we have to realise what infrastructure is needed to support these cars, we are talking billions just to set up hydrogen fueling stations.