BMW — the company that months ago touted a “production” hydrogen-combusion 7-Series — says the dream of hydrogen-powered cars emitting only water vapor is 30 years away.
“Hydrogen is considered to be one of the technologies that might be an answer in the long-term future, but it is a very long-term perspective,” BMW ’s sales manager for Eastern Europe to the Asia-Pacific region, David Panton, told The Age in Australia.
“If we were able to solve all the (technical) issues, it would still take 20 to 30 years to get distribution channels in place across the world,” he said. In late December, Honda said it would be ready to sell reasonably affordable hydrogen cars by 2018. Of course, selling such cars would require an infrastructure to support them.
