Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Hydrogen, GM
Starting Feb. 7th - Future Cars on Discovery Channel
I saw an interesting commercial the other day on Discovery Channel while I was watching Mythbusters. You do watch Mythbusters don't you? If not, check it out, it's one of my favorites. Anyway, I usually skip the commercials, but I left it alone this one time. Lucky for me, because I caught a glimpse of a new show coming up on Discovery starting the seventh of February called Future Cars. They have a website up now, check it out.
During the 30 seconds or so of commercial, I was able to pick out a few vehicles that have been featured here on our site, but none of them are on the show's website. All that is there on the site is a story about seven intern auto-designers who are trying to design what they think that cars will be like in 2030. An interesting concept, and you can view their designs on a micro-site and even vote on them. It appears that you will need to tune in to find out what powers the not-yet-vehicles, if they even discuss it, but it looks like it will be worth watching. We covered the initial press release when the show was announced last year. In that release, it was mentioned that the vehicles would be powered by hydrogen fuel cells. I assume that's still the case.
The show may be a part of their upcoming special highlighting the future in general. On another spot of their site, you can see some of what scientists say may be around in 2057.
What do you think about their design ideas? Are they anywhere close to the mark?
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[Source: Discovery Channel]
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chuck g 1:47PM (2/08/2007)
Great show- Guideway and LMV topics well done-
But, they missed this one http://humancar.com/advancedsales.htm
4 advanced hybrid human electric AUTOMOTIVE BASED vehicle available
VIN 001-004 which would have summarized most all designs on the show.
CG
see a spot http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4607665024809329110&q=humancar
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Dale Bulthuis 12:39AM (2/15/2007)
All the discussed future ideas on a car. I think would be saving energy without looking like a retired geeks car. nano technology, wheel motors ( I think it would be neat to use the spinning of the wheels on the car to create energy like the waterwheel). I think also solar covering on the car panels and on the windows. as long as it has the look and power of chevy corvette.
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Chuck R 1:06PM (3/04/2007)
I like the hydrogen powered and oxygen powered automobiles. I live in a cold weather climate and I would like to know how reliable are these cars in the cold and snow. Also I would like to know what kind of value they are looking at when these start production.
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SUMEET A. MHARDOLKAR 12:42AM (8/02/2007)
i wanna get information on future cars for technical paper presentations
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R Hennek 9:04PM (11/14/2007)
I just saw your Future Car show. As presented it is just CHEAP PROPAGANDA! You totally disregarded the fact that it currently takes more energy to generate hydrogen than you get back out of it. You totally ignored the need to highly pressurize the hydrogen. You totally ignored the requirement of a fuel take many times the size of a current gas tank to equal the same range. Completely one sided without a representation of all the facts required. Shame on you.
Don't believe me folks? Try investigating the study done by the University of New Hampshire Physics department.
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
One sided propaganda!! Without all the facts. The sad truth is most people are too uninformed to know it. YOU HAVE LOST ALL CREDIBILITY.
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