Hydrogen cars ‘on sale next year’

Cars that run on hydrogen and exhaust-only water vapour are emerging to challenge electric vehicles as the world's transportation of the future.

At motor shows on two continents three car makers have unveiled hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to be delivered to the public as early as next spring.

South Korea's Hyundai will be the first to the mass market in the US. It unveiled a hydrogen-powered Tucson small SUV at the Los Angeles Auto Show that will be leased to consumers.

This is interesting stuff only it’s a bit late as there is already a hydrogen fuel cell car already on hand; the Honda FCX Clarity which has been available since 2008, granted Honda have only made about 50 available and they’re lease only, but still.

Although hydrogen powered, petrol powered, battery powered, who would want to drive a Hyundai? I certainly wouldn’t.

I’ve also never understood why carmakers have persistently spent billions developing and researching electric/battery powered cars when the possibility of fuelling a car with hydrogen was there all along.

In the last five, no make it ten, years it’s become pretty obvious that electric/battery and hybrid cars are useless, hopelessly impractical and simply not the answer, yet for some reason carmakers have ignored all that and continued to spend billions trying to make them better. It hasn't worked. 

Now they’re, non-verbally, admitting that they were wrong and it was all a waste of time.

I hope that hydrogen powered cars replace hybrid/electric/battery cars, because as I said they’ve been a huge waste of time and money and there has been a much better way there all along, thankfully now carmakers are finally realising this.