TOPIC 'Hydrogen & Hydrogen Cars' on Dec 12, 2008 (CET)
Contract For A Hyrban Vehicle As You Would A Cell Phone?
There’s a new idea. Hugo Spowers has a vision that the way cars are bought and sold today needs to be changed. Instead of buying a vehicle, essentially using it up and throwing it away, Mr. Spowers has the innovative idea of buying the “use” of the vehicle rather than the vehicle itself. It is a “sale of service” method whereby the vehicle (an asset) would stay on the balance sheet of the provider. It is similar to the car leasing programs available today.
Mr. Spowers graduated from Oriel College, in Oxford, Massachusetts, with a MA in engineering science. His career and interests have been diverse, but he has always had an interest in the world’s ecosystem. At present, he is working to develop a hydrogen fuel cell at a relatively low cost. His desire is to exchange the internal combustion engine for an efficient energy hydrogen fuel cell.
Clean energy that can be developed commercially and is unlimited in usage has still to be brought forth, although many are working on ideas. Mr. Spowers already has had one prototype that has worked, but it did not make it into testing with regard to its design. He also has capital supplied by members of the Porsche dynasty.
Mr. Spowers’ goal is to have a system of low-polluting and durable cars that will operate on, and refuel with, hydrogen at stations spread around a particular area by 2020. He also believes the vehicles should be contracted out like the contract one enters into for a mobile phone. His prototype is the Hyrban (that’s its current name), and it is scheduled to be on the road by mid-January 2009. The model will have a “one-part body” and a chassis, and will be assembled at a racing manufacturing facility at Silverstone. It will have two seats and look similar to a “1960s bubble car” combined with a small car used to travel only locally. A pilot program might be able to start in Britain by 2013 if funding can be established. The pilot program is envisioned to include 50 cars and one main refueling station.
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