OT: new car advice

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On Thursday 24 November 2005 22:55, FoulDragon at aol.com wrote:

>
> The problem is the infrastructure.  A lot of people won't buy alt-fuel cars
> without the infrastructure.  If I run out of gas in Ajo, I can address it,
> but what if I run out of hydrogen?  Where will I take my fuel-cell 2009
> Elantra for after-market service?

The first Fuel Celled vehicles will no doubt be commuter vehicles. Hydrogen 
will be purchased as needed from a local supplier, or generated at home from 
Bio Diesel fuels, or electrolysis.
>
> And nobody's gonna build that infrastructure (which will lose money until a
> critical mass of alt-fuel cars are on the road) without sufficient cars or
> a subsidy.
California is already planning the Hydrogen Highway - one reason that the 
British Fuel-Celled Motorcycle firm is planning to open up there. Hopefully, 
the system will run on embedded Linux ... (a lame attempt to keep this thread 
somewhat on topic ;))