Hydrogen Cars
June 22nd, 2005
Last night, I was reading an article on Honda’s latest hydrogen fuel cell car. It sounds like the technology is almost ready to hit production, with decent performance, and reasonable range (about 130 miles per tank.) They covered a lot of info about the fill up process, involving connecting a grounding cable to the car and touching the pump before disconnecting the fill hose to prevent static sparks from igniting anything.
I’m left wondering though, what happens when one of these things gets in an accident? They’ve got two tanks of hydrogen compressed to 5000 psi when full. Seems to me like that could be sortof dangerous, you know?
