BMW does hydrogen

Although not exactly new news, I recently read an actual road test of the BMW Hydrogen 7 on Edmund's Inside Line. While it sounds like big 7 is unremarkable in the context of BMW's other sport sedans, it is an amazing showcase of technology that proves engineering a viable, well-mannered hydrogen car can be done. In addition, it manages not to look like a small Japanese shoe or some cartoonish high-riding mini-truck as Honda might have done. Although looking like a 7 series is no great compliment in itself. Even with the recent taillight updates, it looks as if some giant creature dropped a metallic turd on the trunk. At the end of the day though, this car is about bragging rights. The fact of the matter is that there is nowhere to fuel it because no one wants to make the fuel. More fossil fuel gets burned processing the liquid hydrogen than the car would have burned in the first place. Now that is an inconvenient truth [speak out loud in constipated Al Gore voice].