Company Unveils Hydrogen Hybrid Supercar: Available Fall 2008
Well, here it is folks. A company has finally gone and built the controversial hydrogen hybrid system (or hydrogen injection, or Water4Gas or HHO system – choose your poison) into what appears to be a true production car. Not only that, the car looks, well, stunning… to put it mildly.
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Ronn Motors of Austin, Texas, yesterday unveiled what they’re calling “the key to a new generation of “green cars.” The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Ronn Maxwell, had this to say about it:
“What we are revealing today is an innovation in the automotive industry and demonstrates American ingenuity at a time of real need. We’re designing and building cars with performance components and unique styling with the objective of making the new environmentally friendly vehicle stand out with never before seen style and approximately 40 mpg plus efficiency.”
I recently featured this type of hydrogen-on-demand hybrid system in a Gas 2.0 post about potential fuel saving scam devices. At the end of that post I had to say that the jury was still out on these types of systems. There was plenty of back and forth from folks who felt that hydrogen hybrids were scams and those that claimed they had installed the devices and they actually worked.
If Ronn Motors has truly built it into a production supercar, and it works, that would kind of put the kibosh on any naysayers out there now, wouldn’t it? Not only would the development and production of this car validate the functionality of hydrogen hybrids, it also could spur a broader public interest and recognition of the technology.
As of right now, it’s only a test car and some of the quotes from Ronn executives suggest they haven’t actually installed a hydrogen generator into the vehicle yet. But as the Hydrogen Cars & Vehicles blog puts it: “Move over Bugatti, Lamborghini and Saleen, the Ronn Motors Scorpion is a supercar that will scoot 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds and achieve 40 mpg, too.” I mean, if it’s true, this appears to be an awesome development.
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Image credit: Ronn Motors
The ronnmotors.com needs some work.
In the Engine / Drivetrain section alone, I see plenty of errors.
2008 Acura dual overhead cam, aluminum/magnesium block, 3.5 liter, V-tech, V-6, Type S Engine (That’s VTEC®)
6 speed close ration manual transmission. (Why would a transmission need to be rationed)
It’s a very pretty body, with a decent powertrain.
This technology is very exciting, but it will be a while before it makes it into a mass-produced version. Fortunately, there is a simple system that harbors this technology and can be used on your car today. Check out http://www.h2ofuelboost.com
“some of the quotes from Ronn executives suggest they haven’t actually installed a hydrogen generator into the vehicle yet.” - So in that case, I’d like to announce that I have solved the “cold fusion” problem and saved the world!! Well, no, I haven’t actually BUILT anything yet, but IF I DID….!
thats a crazy cool looking car!
Yes! Another eco friendly car the mass public cant afford! Hazah! NEXT!
@Mitch
If the car ran solely on water, it would have to split the water molecules to H2 and O2, introduce these to the combustion engine, the products of the combustion cycle being H2O and motion. Since you began with water and end with water and H2O it would actually be “producing” more energy than it began with.
This is not really a breakthrough or even realistic. VW will be releasing a diesel Jetta soon that will get 60mpg. Imagine if someone like a big oil company decided to develop the distribution of SVO? That is something to look into. SVO ( straight veg oil) is clean burning, fuel efficient and a very renewable resource. That is something to write about and for more people to adopt. It’s a viable solution to gasoline.
This guy already has a company based on diesels running SVO….worth looking into.
http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com
No, no, no!! No hydrogen car! NO! This is how Exxon “trades up” from selling us gas, they’ll sell us hydrogen at fill up stations. We’re smarter then this, we have better technology then this. It takes more energy to make the hydrogen then to just run off electricity directly. Buy a Tesla!
I am sure the green people and the tree huggers will find something wrong with it after a 20 year $30,000,000 environmental study.
SVO is a great idea but has anyone took a look at the yield per acre of pure vegetable oil, or what other crop we can use to generate SVO? What we need is sustainable harvests of something that won’t constrain our food production levels. It would be interesting if we as a group could get some of this type of research done ourselves so that we know what the best courses of action are to help in the cause. I often feel people want to make a change in their lives for the future but with so many options available and no real clear alternative outlined for the future it’s hard to make a decision that you know will be the right direction to head in. Of course that’s why sites like these are so great, since there’s so much going on we can at least be informed to make a better decision that the masses who prefer to rely on the government…