Goodbye combustion engine

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Goodby combustion engine?

Not in our lifetime if ever

[Force10]

It will be easier to spot accidents ahead of you....just look for the mini mushroom cloud. lol

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by Force10

It will be easier to spot accidents ahead of you....just look for the mini mushroom cloud. lol

LOL true dat!

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

Goodby combustion engine?

Not in our lifetime if ever

Had I read your post just yesterday, I would have agreed with you. But the writing is on the wall, and they have set a course. Look for the combustion engine's to be offered for specialty applications only, say after the year 2025.

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

But the writing is on the wall, and they have set a course.

And in most cases the course is backwards where we will all be waring blue jump suits and riding bycicls

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Look for the combustion engine's to be offered for specialty applications only, say after the year 2025.

Hardly..

As long at there is not a 3rd world war that sets us back to the dark ages there will be combustion engines for hundreds of years to come! Granted, you and many like you may be riding in smart cars.. but next to you on the highway there will be trucks, delivery vans, 18 wheelers, etc that will be using combustion engines.. Just hope and pray their mirrors are big enough to see you little spec of a car!

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

And in most cases the course is backwards where we will all be waring blue jump suits and riding bycicls


Hardly..

As long at there is not a 3rd world war that sets us back to the dark ages there will be combustion engines for hundreds of years to come! Granted, you and many like you may be riding in smart cars.. but next to you on the highway there will be trucks, delivery vans, 18 wheelers, etc that will be using combustion engines.. Just hope and pray their mirrors are big enough to see you little spec of a car!

Your nuts!... I love the combustion engine, my truck has a 460 engine, and I loved my 1200 Harley...but neither you or I can't stop progress

[ACE-OF-ACES]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

Your nuts!... I love the combustion engine, my truck has a 460 engine, and I loved my 1200 Harley...but neither you or I can't stop progress

Bud.. nothing I said is nuts..

Fact remains it will be many Many MANY years before the come up with something to replace the trucks I noted above.

As for progress.. The greenie hippie socialist have been predicting the end of the combustion engine for decades.. So I don't see where I am being silly by having a 'show me' and 'seeing is belving' aproach to this latest atempt to call the combustion engine DOA

[Outlaw]

Two words...energy density.

End of story.

Your mobility (at least long range) will depend on an ICE for a long time.



--Outlaw.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by ATAG_MajorBorris

The vehicle is not the hard part, building a new fuel distribution system and not being crushed by the most powerful corporations in the world will be true challenge.

I have been a fan of these alternitives for many years, I hope we see them soon!

From what I read they are thinking to leave the current fueling infrastructure. Only that you pull in for fuel and they remove and replace the fuel cell in minutes. A plug and play unit that is universal for the different makes of cars...naturally this is the end desire to have in place, but is years away

[TomcatViP]

Well, we never achieved anything like a standardization in the IT hardware. I don't see it happening in the car industry for plug and play (P&P) fuel cell units.

It's a great idea, but Germans will have their own format, French another (with a strange and ugly multi-faceted design), UK will require manufacturer to install it upside down with asymetric design and Chinese will have their own that will fell apart after a few miles.

So, P&P ? humm at least if you don't go too far from your home.

Regarding the bright and orange mushrooms that some fears to multiply on our highway, metallic foams started to appear 3 to 5 years ago as a container for the H2. they look promising in case of crash collisions for safety concerns.

EDIT: Great Bike !