I’m skeptical of this report as everyone I have talked to has said it will need to be some type of SCR injection system. If there was a way to do it without Urea other companies would have went that direction.

Also, keep trolling Nico:

Human nature. People try to avoid uncomfortable scenarios for as long as possible. That’s why your customers probably love you for being up front and keeping them up to date.

...or I can “special order” it from the same place they’re getting it from and save money/time.

Prius was released in Japan in 1997. The Insight was released in 1999.

Honda Element:

Those videos were from well before the company folded. Aptera statement released after the videos surfaced:

1. Toyota beat them to market by years.
2. Honda never “dropped” hybrids.
3. The Insight, while very interesting from an Engineering standpoint, was far too compromised for a mass market car.

Had an Avenger as a rental last year. I had to check the door jam for a production date because I couldn’t believe a car that shitty was still made in 2014.

The first gen Prius was a brand new technology that the market had to be educated on. The ELR/Volt did not have this handicap.

The ELR was Tesla money for a Volt drivetrain. It seemed more like a “we don’t want to go electric so lets sabatage this shit” effort than anything.

Oil companies are very interested in keeping their existing distribution model going. That is the only logic I can see behind the big push behind Hydrogen.

I think even “very limited” is a generous statement. There are 14 stations in the entire US: http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen…

Someone needs to make a version with this for the silhouette

Ford 427 SOHC engine

Katech has an article on the development of that engine:

Hydrogen fuel cells are much more ineffient than their battery electric counterparts. Add in that the fueling infrastructure is significantly more expensive, same range anxiety as electric vehicles, the fuel cells themself are expensive, etc.

We were “potentially losing thousands in resale value” before the announcement of any goodwill program too.

“(of course eventually all these cars will have to be recalled and fixed. Eventually.)“