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Hydrogen is a different kind of ICE. They could imagine it. Electric was hard to imagine. I'm not even disagreeing with the main premise of the article-- there
by reubenswartz 9y ago
Hydrogen is a different kind of ICE. They could imagine it. Electric was hard to imagine.
I'm not even disagreeing with the main premise of the article-- there's no way BMW could shift the bulk of its production to electric right now. I'm just saying the could for some of the high(er?/est?) end vehicles that have low volume anyway, and they can charge ~$100K for the gas versions. Electric would be faster and have more cachet.
- Pulcinella 9y agoHydrogen fuel cells are electric and electric wasnt hard to imagine. Electric cars have been around since the 1880s.
- reubenswartz 9y agoThanks for straightening me out on how the fuel cells work. I didn’t understand that.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoThe first cars were electric. Electricity powering cars isn’t hard to to envision.
- ptaipale 9y agoNot the "first cars". First machine-powered automobile was a steam engine (1769), first internal combustion engine car was running on hydrogen (1808), first gasoline-powered combustion engine came in 1870 and was installed to a cars well before Benz made his car in 1885, about the same time the first battery-electric car was made by Thomas Parker. But yes, there were many electric car models in the beginning of 1900's.
- greedo 9y agoWhy would electric be hard to imagine? Any kid with a set of Hot Wheels new it could work. The problems 10-20 years ago still persist; range and recharge. Battery tech improves slowly compared to other tech.