I was reading about a $10 million prize to design a car that gets 100 MPG. This sounds pretty spectacular. When you realize that the Model T Ford averaged 25 MPG almost 100 years ago, what does that say about our current technology. I know that there are other ways to power cars. You can power any internal combustion engine with hydrogen. The byproduct is water vapor. The exhaust is actually cleaner than whey the air entered the combustion chamber. The only problem with this is the storage container for the hydrogen gas. This is very costly to design and build. The other problem is that there aren't very many places to buy a tank of hydrogen.
There are impressive developments in fuel cell vehicles, this takes the hydrogen, converts it to electricity, which in turn powers the vehicle. Mercedes Benz has some test vehicles that are already in use. These are really nice, but wouldn't it be nice to retrofit the millions of cars that are on the road, rather than having to build all new?
I really think it wil be a good idea to get these cars on the road and lessen the dependence on oil.
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