3/22/2010 10:00:00 PM
That has always been the fear about hydrogen cars, since memories still linger of the Hindenburg dirigible accident in 1937. Freese explains that the cars are designed so the tanks will leak in a jet of flame if ruptured and ignited, not go off like a bomb...
USA Today reports that five GM fuel-cell vehicles participating in the company’s ‘Project Driveway’, have been involved in accidents over the years, and none has resulted in any sort of catastrophic hydrogen explosion. Pictured left, CALSTART's own Project Driveway loaner vehicle, the fuel cell Chevrolet Equinox. [More...]
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