Alternate-Reality Hyperion XP-1 Supercar, powered by a hydrogen fuel cell

[Ace-Garageguy]

I always get a chuckle when people here tag me as an old-man-shouting-at-clouds, mired hopelessly in a petroleum-based past, and lecture me on how "the world has changed".

How ridiculously off base. What I'm actually opposed to is stupidity masquerading as smart, lies hiding behind smoke-and-mirrors, and change for the sake of change.

THIS, on the other hand, is demonstrative of a future I'd enthusiastically embrace.

The Hyperion  XP-1, below,  is even cooler than Jaguar's spectacular (2010) C-X75 twin-turbine / electric hybrid project :

 

 

Edited March 4, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

Let the flame-war begin. I'm sure all the alternative-energy experts will weigh in about how it's a fake, or only a prototype, or too over-the-top and gimmicky, or is ugly, or is so expensive only the hyper rich could afford it, or that there's not much hydrogen infrastructure... I'm sure I'm missing quite a few expert "reasons" why it couldn't possibly work.

And they'd be completely missing the point that humans have the technology, developed and mature technology in most cases, to build something derived from this on an affordable basis today, getting the hydrogen from housetop solar PV arrays cracking household waste-water into hydrogen and oxygen.

I have an approximately 1/24 scale functional hydrogen fuel cell model car. A small PV unit sitting in the window in the sun makes hydrogen from water, and the little car will run a short distance on it.

Honda did a full-scale rooftop-solar-generated-hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle project years ago. It worked great. The home installation made enough hydrogen every day to power the car through an "average" daily commute cycle.

Getting from there to where we need to be is only a matter of scale, and the desire to do it.

And it makes one jell of a lot more sense in the long term than the idiot push to battery-power everything.

Edited March 4, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

Glad to see such cogent, reasoned and articulate reaction, pretty much on time, just as expected.  

[Rob Hall]

Seriously, got to wonder why you post stuff like this here.  Is it to show off your grumpy old know-it-all persona, to act faux-outraged? 

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 minute ago, Rob Hall said:

Seriously, got to wonder why you post stuff like this here.  Is it to show off your grumpy old know-it-all persona, to act faux-outraged? 

Just to get a rise out of you, Rob. And it works every time.  

[iamsuperdan]

This is a very cool car. And hydrogen power makes way more sense to me than EV.

Two takeaways for me though.

1. Car is not attractive. They need to hire a better design team.

2. I still can't watch an entire video of this lady.