Michael.

Awesome, will have to call in and be nosy if I'm in the area sometime

^ What he said

Neg on price? a friend was looking for something to use in the waikaraka speedway demolition derby on the 27th.

^ Hilarious

On the contrary I wonder if NZ could one day be a good small test bed for hydrogen technology, like the tests the did with Eftpos back in the day. Different matters all together, but you never know. I'm sure there have been lots of things from international entities being tested here on a mass scale.

ahahahaha

The E90 from HELL

Dreaming at that price I would have thought. Engines look suggests it's just been sitting around a lot. Wonder how much work it's had, if any.

Wow I agree with you 3pedals.

What is a better tech than hydrogen fuel cell?

Depends how fast you want to go I guess. These new Jaguar XJs seem like a good deal, mid range power though 380hp / 515nm https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/jaguar/auction-1505447948.htm?rsqid=f60ada76eebb49978f7d5623efd19121

I'd stick with the S8, it's stylish unique car, few compare. The BMW substitutes seem bland and generic. All will have their problems I suppose.

$500

That hydrogen V12 E38 actually ran on the gas as a combustible fuel, lower power density so didn't really perform that well. Better off with LPG! Was an interesting experiment though

I think that's irrelevant in some ways. A least the way a HFC car uses the hydrogen for electrical power can be extremely efficient, up to 80 percent of the fuel converted to electrical energy some studies have shown. It would still be a viable product to produce, bottle and sell given it's purposefulness. Meanwhile the thermal efficiency of petrol cars is pretty poor, 20-30 percent usually. So it could be argue petrol cars are self defeating in that aspect of how much of the fuel they waste as heat. Yet, here we are well over 100 years later, still using them despite the lack of efficiency. I wonder how efficient the production of lithium ion or iron batteries is when it comes down to the way they are produced, I guess it's not so applicable as they can't be used as a fuel, and only work when, coal power plants charge them.

Welcome mate. Clean looking car you have there! Next monthly Auckland meet will be the 7th Jan, Sunday (normally held first sundays of every month, but sometimes we can them at holiday times of the year) 761 Great South Road. Kyu who runs the cafe there will normally post in the meet thread if it's on or not.

Meh oil companies will work it out when it's viable for them. I bet it's no more difficult than making an oil platform, taking it 50km off the coast, sucking oil deep off the ocean floor, getting a huge oil tanker to take it back to a refinery for processing, then trucks or more tankers to transport it. They could just build their own small nuclear reactors for endless amounts of electricity to perform the procedures to extract hydrogen and bottle it. If they can produce it, distribute it and sell it when it's more cost effective than oil they will do it. Do you really think they will sit back and watch less sales of oil take place while consumers plug in their battery cars to the electrical grid. Somehow I doubt that. They would rather them buy hydrogen! Hydrogen is the only model that compares to diesel or petrol, giving constant output when being used (no performance or power drop like in battery cars as the battery goes lower and lower) and it would take a few minutes to fill up the gas tank, just like what people are used to today. The plug in and charge method is only going to suit a tiny tiny fraction of vehicle users out there, especially when rapid charge times are still at least 30 minutes and gives limited range.

From BOC gas, in large bottles, easy. Eventually, wait for gas stations to sell it like LPG. Done!

Hydrogen fuel cell. They produce an electrical charge by the hydrogen passing through the fuel cell, magical stuff with electrons happens when the gas combines with oxygen in the air, producing water (H2O) and the electric charge is harnessed. It a beautiful system. Small battery + direct charge to the electric motors.

1JZ would be super easy to do. Still I'd prob go S54, would be a fun machine either way. I've often thought a 4 cylinder better suits the E30 chassis, an nice Vtec engine would be a good unit, K24A or F20C

I hope you change the oil to a 0w-20

Yeah ^ I could see heavy industrial use of electric motors in trucks and such equipment. Seems to make more commercial sense with the fuel savings and the torque advantage.

Are the different injectors bigger in flow ccs? Same as stock heat range for the spark plugs?

Keen for a spin sometime!!

Lithium production in Bolivia, quite interesting.