My respponse: Big deal!!!

Yet ANOTHER fuel cell concept with technology that we may never see, and by the time they finally bring it to market I will be way too old to drive it!

Let’s face it, the oil companies have everyone in a stranglehold, and they are also going to choke off any technology that will lower the country’s oil consumption, as this is HOW THEY MAKE THEIR BIG PROFITS!

So, I’ll pass on getting excited about this new fuel cell marvel…..

This is when the Americans will rule the world, when they get their fingers out of their asses and do something worthwhile adn innovative

Americans need to put their technologies in ACTION, not in CONCEPT.
I would love to see this upcoming thing about who killed the electric car.
Again I guess this 1 billion $$ investment is paying off not only for BMW but GM as well, let’s just see about DCX.

thats great, even the concept is an SUV

gsh,

LOL.

Jon.

GM can’t win in most of your eyes, unfortunately. They make plenty of mistakes, sure, but this is a good thing by all means, and they receive little to no credit from you bashers. I’d love to see the things you’d say if this was a toyota, or a BMW.

BMW plans to have a hydrogen car by 2010…to which I say: big deal. Make the damn thing, and then we’ll see, until then, I won’t hold my breath.

Jon.

GM makes car with cool lights.

At least this GM has some style. They should get their alternative-power-vehicle designers to pen the normal production cars.

there isn’t enough love for GM sometimes.. but other times it’s just ridiculous how bashers kid around like GMnumber14ever… where did he go anyways?

Hope he doesn’t come back

Yea, there isnt much mature critisicm and insightful praise for GM on the comment boards. I understand that a lot of you hate GM for some strange reason, but atleast your comment can be constructive. GM has just made a huge milestone in automotive history.

For all of you saying “just build it aready”, it isnt so easy to make hydrogen fuel cell cars, they have to worry about the huge tank and what’ll happen to it when the car crashes. There’s a lot of work that has to go into making a hydrogen fuel car, especially for production.

Well it makes sense that a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is a SUV. YOu need some substantial mass to support all of the fuel cell components. Right now they do not have the technology to shrink that down to a more managable size.

British_Rover, you need volume to hold all the fuel cell equipment, not mass. How old are you?

Yeah how about all of you create, market and succsesfully sell a car that uses cutting edge technology that the interest has just been tapped into? And then come back and say “put it into production already!”

I give GM lots of credit for this car.
300 mile range is fairly impressive. I love the way it looks, it’s very futuristic and cool looking. It reminds me of a Subaru B9 Tribeca for some strange reason.

Screw hydrogen, toss a 2.8L V6 in that mini-SUV and sell it, that looks damn fine.

some more awesome news from GM!… I am one that is for fuel cell vehicles!.. and this suv looks great… now they just need to prove the technology and make it affordable!

Undecided….

And what do you think that volume creates?? It creates mass. You can’t fit the fuel cell equipment in a sub compact not with todays technology. Fuel cell equipment weighs a lot as well and so better to put it in a larger vehicle to spread the weight around.

If you look at Jeeps old Commander fuel cell concept

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto_News/Green_Machines/Jeeps_Commander.S196.A1715.html

They had to use a full size SUV to get all of the technology to fit on a platform. This concept looks a little smaller so yeah they are making progress. You will probably see lots of fuel cell buses in the future as the technology makes even more sense for those kind of large commercial vehicles.

GM Rule’s !!!!!

Am I the only one who’s really excited about this?

Let us assume this is on dealer lots tomorrow. The technology is perfected and it drives 300 miles. One question:

Where does the hydrogen come from?

I love GM, and I am all for gettng off Arab oil, but no one has answered how hydrogen will be available to everyone everywhere.

HoosierRon, that’s where an effective national energy policy would come in, if we had one, and if we had any REAL leadership in Washington D.C.,,,,,,

Umm… british rover.. volume doesn’t create mass. If I had a hole in the ground even though it may have alot of volume does it have any mass? No, the more volume the less mass usually, unless it takes more materials to make more volume which results in more mass. If I had a plastic bottle and a glass one both having the same amount of volume, their weight is unaffected by the volume. Their weight is affected by the materials
I agree with JC2. Good for him giving credit when credit is due, unlike the rest of you who can’t digest that this is new technology and won’t just make it to production without some serious undergoing.

Jeeze you people are idiots. Nevermind even trying to explain this. I have driven a fuel cell powerd luminia and tahoe that my university built. The weight of the fuel cell equipment is considerable and currently just works better in a larger platform then a smaller one. Once the technology is developed more it will be able to be used in smaller vehicles. In addition using fuel cells in large commercial vehicles like buses, cube vans, UPS/FedEx package trucks etc. The centeral fueling location makes more sense for the hydrogen supply.

This is big news! If you can’t see that, you don’t understand where the automobile is headed in the not so distant future. Beyond that, you have no clue as where the world economy is headed – the eventual end of world dependence on fossil fuels – at least in the automobil.

HoosierRon, The hydrogen can come from water. Water reduced into its constituent elemental gases of oxygen and hydrogen by hydrolysis. However, it is more like that the hydrogen will be derived from hydrocarbons such as natural gas (methane) or propane.

This is great news….although I never liked Amreican cars for their built quality (somehow they are always an abundance of plastic and fake woods and aluminium) this is a great move of GM. In 10 years from now the technoligy will be at a pace that every carmaker has several models in his range. Right now Germany has buses, taxis, minivans and even ambulances driving around on fuelcells. At Mercedes and BMW some execs drive in the biggest cars with electric power and fuelcells. Oil companies?!….they will even go the same way, as someone has to supply the fuel of whatever source it comes. Oil companies have the infrastructure, so as soon as there is a market, they will follow. The car industry will create the market, in ten fifteen years someone in an old school gaz guzzling SUV will look obsolete. Why are some (Americans) scared of progress, I guess, the same reason why in some states they still have the electricity wires on poles, and they still build wooden houses that blow away during every hurricane…..people, look forward!!!

JJ, I agree with most of what you say. However, the issue of electric wire on poles is simple economics. It is not some states, but every state in the USA that strings wire on poles. Only in high population density areas are electric wires placed underground. It cost about 10 cents/mile to string wires on poles. To bury them underground costs more than $1.00/mile.

Didn’t Mercedes package fuel cell into their very tiny old A-Class? I remember reading that a while back, or am I wrong? If that is the case, then using an SUV has nothing to do with packaging.

I am all for fuel cell, but currently it pollutes the earth more to mass produce Hydrogen for cars, then to burn regular petro/gas.

Just what I want in the future, GM techs working on a Hydrogen car. They can’t even fix what they got now and we’re going to add explosives into the mix.

Well at least they’re not yabberin about some idiotic Camaro clunker.

Yes Sean they did package a fuel cell into an A class. Here’s a USATODAY article on it:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/reviews/healey/2005-06-16-a-class_x.htm

And JJ, wires on poles are much cheaper and they aren’t that big of a deal when most of your nation is country. It would be ridiculous to make them underground. Maybe overseas in big cities and smaller locations, but not in the big ol’ USA.
This is an awesome concept, I especially love the front grill.

Those are old news, i saw that car in the Mexico’s City Ibternationa Auto Show like a year ago

they wont be the first to bring a fuel cell vehicle to the market, honda has already done so with the FCX, leased one to a family in Cali, oh look, the americans are behind again..