Gadget Du Jour
Three wheeler? Can you say nobody will insure it after the first one tips over? And you’ll need to be like those Thai contortionists to get in that tiny low door. And at 850 lbs. the first collision with a dump truck will punt that thing into the next county.
Interesting concept if there were nothing but them on the road. Reminds me of a Bonneville Flats motorcycle with an aerodynamic fairing.
Oh, good grief! What is this, another one of Al Gore’s stunted brainstorms?
I’ll skip on any car that could possibly be made into a pancake by a Yugo.. LOL....
I think Hydrogen is the way to go if they can manage to make it safe.. I think maybe on demand processing of hydrogen from water could be the way to go.. I’m sure the oil companies are right on that 1.. LOL..
Yeah but there is one good thing about this little piece of junk - it indicates that enviro wackos don’t reproduce as there isn’t any room for children!
It could be fun to play hockey with. I don’t imagine that it would do much damage to my brush guard.
I like the concept of hydrogen as a fuel. Ever since I saw a NOVA program on the potential for hydrogen (I even watched it again to be sure that the cannibis hadn’t effected my judgement)as a fuel I have been rooting for the simpilist element. What I see is still the potential and some small steps forward. I wish the icelanders all the luck in the world. Maybe some small company can start a regional hydrogen fuel cycle before the government gets involved. the only way that I see hydrogen as a viable fuel is for it to work on a very local basis (i.e. on physical plant or very small city) and NOT to expect it to replace conventional fuels.
Posted by yatalli
01/22/2006 at 04:02 PM
It looks like it would be kinda tough to chain-up for snow covered roads.
Posted by piccalo
01/22/2006 at 04:31 PM
Another ridicoulous and impractical design from the environazis that will never amount to anything. When are they going to figure out that the transportation system (and the cars) we already have was designed by geniuses and works incredibly well.
Posted by Paul "No Fear" Weir
01/22/2006 at 09:43 PM
IIRC, it takes more energy to produce hydrogen from water than the gas yields as a fuel. That’s marvelous for Iceland with virtually endless energy from geothermal sources to power the generation of a fuel more convenient for everyday use than molten lava and steam, but if you must use fossil fuel to generate the electricity to power the conversion, then it would be a net energy loss.
However, if we use coal and nuclear energy to generate the electricty for hydrogen fuel for internal combustion engines, we could realize some lesser dependence on imported oil, and that’s a good thing.
It looks like some toy that my kid might have got for Christmas and broke the next week. I’ll be planted in my grave before I drive something like that.
Heck, even with chains I dont think an 850 lb car would be very good on snow/ice covered roads… especially with the reverse tricycle thing going on..
But then what would I know.. Snow/ice covered roads are pretty rare down here, and quite dangerous the few times every 20 or so years they happen.. with not many people knowing how to drive on them it’s better to stay inside..
I was gonna say something like that, Dick. You did a better job, I’d say. The envirowackos dismiss the hydrogen generation from the equation so that it looks better.
I can see nuke plants providing the power for the electrolysis but then they’re going to be screaming about the byproduct and we’ll have “oxygen polution”.
On the pluse side, nobody’s gonna steal that “car”.
You know, reading this again, I remember being in Germany when the wall started coming down. The east germans and chechs came across in these pitiful (even by european standards) little boxes (oops, cars) turned out that they were recycled plastic. Smallest damn cars I’d ever seen, they were like toy cars. I guess having had at least one kid around since 1975 - I can’t even imagine a car that small ever being a consideration. [by the way, if anyone can tell me how to get rid of the kids - let me know, I still have two here!]
I guess that they designed this thing to be bounced off an SUV’s front bumper like a hockey puck. At 850 lbs. this car has got to be mostly fuel tank. Anyone have a light?
Hydrogen power will take a lot of work (read a LOT of money) before it’s a practical reality. How about something cheap (the oil companies throw away tons of it every second), very clean burning and uses a technology that was debugged decades ago. Stumped? It’s called natural gas aka methane. Every picture you’ve seen of an offshore oil platform includes a flare stack to get rid of it, yet it’s a practical fuel and cars have been running on it for decades. It’s cheap (we can even use garbage and cow flops to make more fuel), clean burning, proven technology - why are we looking at hydrogen?
The old goat roper is on a roll. 
Yo Catman, not the Arabs - our domestic oil producers are throwing away tons of the stuff because there’s no market for it. Every depleted oil field still has mega tons of it and it’s all domestic. Trash dumps, cattle yards and sewage plants make still more tons of it daily.
