BMW Hydrogen 7-series just a P.R. stunt?

Told you that it is quite pointless. There is no need to burn hydrogen.

It shows how far BMW have come with this technologi, remember BMW is a very small company, that produces only 1.000.000 cars a year, not like Ford, GM, VW and so on. You can go one third on hydrogen, compared to real gas, not much but a step in the rigth way. At least some try to make it a better world to live in.
BY THE WAY, AMERICANS SHOULD THINK TO BUY SMALLER ENGINED CARS THAT WOULD HELP THE WORLD TO.

MPowerDK, sadly in America, bigger is always better...=|

The point of this car seems to be -- enter the hydrogen conversation with the glitterati. Draft off of the Hollywood Prius phenomenon. Well, it worked!

now where am i going to find that bloody hydrogen so i can drive another 200 miles...

utahkid,
strongest?
us seemed pretty scared of russia and china.
wealthiest?
not per person.
most powerful?
again, china, russia, japan.

this car has an ordinary internal combustion engine that can run on hydrogen.
seems like a good idea.

Well, at least, unlike Ford and GM, BMW is trying to be innovative.

good technology, but i believe the reason it only can go about 200 miles is because the tank is 2 gallons. compared with 13-21 gallon regular gas tanks on cars. Maybe they could make a bigger tank?

Yes i do think its a PR stunt because really having a big hydrogen tank in your car is just as bad as having suicide bombers. People everywhere dont know how to drive and the last thing i want them to have is a big ass bomb to drive around in.

^^^whatta dumbass statements.


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i wouldnt say china has associations with osama bin laden.
thats an uproven and frankly quite wild statement.

gearguru, petrol is also explosive.

So we've had a week of BMW saving the world with its hydrogen car, and now the details that some of had speculated on start to leak out. I've posted several times about this slow, oversized, underpowered car that is going to spend all of its time running on it its weak gasoline engine. Now we hear there will be what, just 100 of the vehicles, leased only to a select few people? Honda and Toyota have been leasing hydrogen vehicles to the public and private sector in California for years, using actual fuel cells, unlike this PR stunt posing as a real breakthrough. BMW, shame on you, for perpetrating this media hype. I'm glad some of us saw through it from the beginning.

huu76,

The U.S. paired up with Canada IS the most powerful nation on Earth. Unlimited oil, metals, lumber, fishstocks, farming land, fresh water etc.
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All those resources you mentioned are not "unlimited".


Add Japan and the U.K. and story over.
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Japan is a country poor in natural resources and so is the UK. The UK only has oil because they've been exploring the North Sea for it.


They (China) do fear the U.S., or else they'd push their weight around more, but instead, they have to get Osama and N.Korea to do their dirty work for them.
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Please post EVIDENCE that the Chinese are funding Bin Ladin or North Korea. Last time I checked, China was pretty itchy themsevles about a North Korea with nuclear weapons run by a madman.

we had natural resources, but we dug them all up....go to cornwall, see the tin and lead mines. go to wales see the gold and coal mines. all empty.

Ah, thanks for pointing that out to me. ;)

huu76,

Japan has money, and a significant armed forces (4th highest budget in the world, all hi-tech weapons). Anyone who wants to touch us has to go through Japan, the U.S. Navy, Hawaii/Alaska, then the U.S. airforce and submarine fleet. Good luck. Same goes on the U.K. side. The benefits are reciprocated, as anyone who touches either country will have Uncle Sam on their ass.
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Why would anyone, who wants to attack the US, have to go through Japan? Whhat does Japan have to do with the US? I don't get it?

...ummmm, technology?

Japan is perhaps the most technologically-advanced coutry at the moment!
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You must be Japanese with all your pro-Japan this, pro-Japan that...

Japan is a technologically advanced nation, but so is the US, so is Germany, so is the UK, France, heck even Russia has a lot of top secret technology within their borders.

huu76,

BMW530i,
The 45,000 marines stationed in Japan and the carrier battlegroup at Yokosuka naval base might have something to say about anyone (China) wanting to attack the U.S.

Hence, if they attack Americans on Japanese soil, they'll be dragging Japan (which has a defense pact with the U.S. anyway) into the fight. And there you see the benefits of true allies as opposed to friends of convenience (S.Korea).
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I thought you said that if someone attacks the USA, as in our country, then they'd have to go through Japan...