CrunchGear

Is it just me or does that look like a wooden shoe?

mitsubishi

Looks friggin amazing … would love to own one ….

My first suggestion is to take the hydrogen engine and replace with a nice V12.

“zero emission hydrogen-powered motor”

Please.

Sure the *motor* emits no carbon, but what about the big, old, dirty, coal-fired power plant that generated the electricity to make the hydrogen for the fuel cell?

Why do people think hydrogen is a clean fuel? It would be more accurate to call this car “coal-powered”.

Doesn’t sound so clean now does it?

Steve, it doesn’t have to be coal powered - in Europe we have something called windmills.. We even have other clean energy sources.. Look it up

Open source??? coooll where can i download one of those?? hehehehe

@european

Thanks for being so condescending, but I’m from Europe as well.

We may indeed have windmills, etc., but the majority of our power comes from fossil fuels, and we don’t appear to be changing any time soon.

It’s important to remember that hydrogen is not an energy *source*, rather it’s a way of transporting energy from one place to another — much like a battery. It is, therefore, only as clean as the method used to produce the hydrogen.

Using the term “zero emission” about a hydrogen powered car is misleading. Its emissions are only zero when clean energy is used to produce it. I agree with you that it doesn’t *have* to be coal powered, but it probably will be.

Crikey. I drive a car that many people consider ugly, but this one takes the biscuit. Fugly. Why?

If you think that coal is bad!!

Guys, we all forget about plastic when we talk about zero emissions or renewable energy sources or death to the oil power industry. Plastic is not just a by-product of oil exploitation, but THE oil exploitation. We are more dependent on plastic than gasoline. So, while an effort like this is definitely a step in the right direction, zero emissions or not, the car looks like it has a awful lot of plastic.

What a great idea, a car that all qualified people can have hands in the design of.

car is powered by YOUR MAMA not coal

In Norway we don’t have a single coal power plant (at least I’m not aware of any). Our electricity is as green as it could be. This car would produce 0% emission here.

Kick your local politicians to make them fix your energy problems. It’s not the car creators fault that there are still loads of countries using 19th century technique to create electricity.

PS: I want one!

first open source car and it’s… UGLY! man that thing is ugly.. i would expect the first open source to be beautiful :D

Oh, come on! The article doesn’t say anything about the power source, just that the car itself has no emissions. I understand that there are problems with many power plants, but this isn’t really the place for them. Quit whining.

great project - thats a sweet looking car. I just hope that they can get it up off the ground. They do a lot of fuel cell testing around here because of the winters.