BMW to Debut Hydrogen Car
BMW is ready to show off it’s hydrogen-powered car in November at the Los Angeles car show. The car hits the market as soon as next April (2007). But will only be available for lease to select customers.
The BMW 7 Series Hydrogen 7 Saloon is powered by a 260 hp twelve-cylinder engine and accelerates from 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in 9.5 seconds. Top speed is limited electronically to 230 km/h.
BMW has said it intends to build a few hundred such cars at first. They will be able to switch between burning standard petrol and hydrogen so that drivers will not be left stranded while the infrastructure to deliver hydrogen is built up.
Jerry Carter said,
October 6, 2006@ 10:23 pm
My understanding from the initial press releases was that they planned to only proudce a few hundred for select celebrities, politicians and other policy influencers in Germany. it would in fact be really cool if they did make it a for sale production model.