Do you think we will use hydrogen as fuel for vehicles ?

Answer 1

Hydrogen has several problems it has to overcome for it in order to be a practical fuel for vehicles. First and foremost, hydrogen is extremely flammable and this has led to several airship disasters in the 1930s. Secondly, although hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, most of the hydrogen exists in the form of water. In order to obtain energy from hydrogen, electrolysis is used, and unfortunately, this process uses massive amounts of energy.

Currently hydrogen cars are extremely expensive to manufacture, 1+ million per vehicle. Fortunately, future technologies might make the cost of hydrogen vehicle competitive with normal vehicles.

One advantage of hydrogen is that it is a clean burning fuel, and it is capable of storing massive amounts of energy.

Answer 2

Most definitely. The department of defense is experimenting with it, right now, and seems to be having very good luck with it.
It will not be produced by electrolysis as mentioned in an above answer, because that simply isn't feasible.
Ongoing research in the microbial science fields, and fermentation industry, has a simple goal in mind of finding a microorganism that produces Hydrogen more efficiently. Once one is found, or engineered, it will remove the bottle-kneck of hydrogen production, and you'll start to see the technology flooding the market.
Electrolysis may be used to reach production quotas, if production falls short of demand, but i highly doubt it will be the foundation of the hydrogen fuel industry.

Yes, hydrogen vehicles are expensive to manufacture, because they aren't mainstream, and mass produced yet. Newer technology isn't needed to bring the manufacturing costs down, only higher volumes of production. This is why all newer technology costs so much when it is first released.

Answer 3

I have seen the BMW hydrogen hybrid car, as well as one from Mercedes and from Volkswagen. According to the BMW engineer touring with the group the current generation BMW (I think it was a 5-series) would retail at about $1 million. The next generation would run about $150-200K and they are still quite a ways off from having something commercially viable.

Answer 4

Most definitely. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and as soon as man can find a way to cheaply produce it in quantity and store it safely for use, it will quicky replace fossil fuels as our primary energy source.

Answer 5

Yes i really do . If not then I'm wrong no thing if I'm not wrong then I'm rich . http://www.first-molecule.com

Something has got to give . I just cant see prices keep going up and up on fuel . Somebodies lining there pockets and its coming out of mine. I hate to see winter come back the heating bill is going to put us all in the hole .

Answer 6

BMW is producing a car u can use both, hydrogen and gasoline.
The first problem: it´s just a limited-lot production
The second problem: it´s very expensive
The third problem: try to find a petrol station (there is one in munich

Answer 7

Ford Motor Company is betting on it
real big.
They have a whole line of hydrogen
cars on the planning board, set to
show up within 5 years.

Answer 8

we cannot say that hydrogen will be used in future. but if any other elements added to it, then it can be used as a fuel.

Answer 9

Wow, I sure hope so. We're way too dependent on oil. Ethanol is not the answer. Clean, next to free or free fuel is the answer. Nature and man with both smile.

Answer 10

i hope so, because paying $3+ on a gallon of gas is killing me, (and the environment) i hope that we start using other alternate fuels, not just hydrogen.....maybe something cheaper =D