{"id":169984,"date":"2010-01-12T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=34232"},"modified":"2010-01-12T12:05:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T17:05:33","slug":"hydrogen-cars-nothing-new-1966-gm-electrovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/169984","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Cars Nothing New: 1966 GM Electrovan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34233\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/hydrogen-cars-nothing-new-1966-gm-electrovan\/gm-electrovan\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gm-electrovan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new wave of hydrogen fuel cell\u00a0cars is not due to new technology, but instead a demand from the public in response to rising gas prices. In fact, fuel cells have been around since the early 1800&#8217;s. Even so the first car to put fuel cell technology to use was the 1966 GM Electrovan.\u00a0 This\u00a0van&#8217;s\u00a0fuel cell\u00a0had a range of over 120 miles which\u00a0is not to bad\u00a0compared to the modern Honda Clarity which has a range of 24o miles.\u00a0This van was built and tested in 1966 but ultimately ended up failing due to cost and a lack of space.\u00a0 The piping and equipment needed to power the fuel cell turned the 6 seat GMC Handivan into a 2 seat hyrdogen Electrovan. High costs came as a result of a lack of information, technology, and interest at the time. There was such a lack of information on hydrogen fuel cell cars that even the Smithsonian Institute did not allow it inside their facilities for the sole reason that they had never heard of a fuel cell before and did not understand it&#8217;s dynamics. Obviously the information\u00a0 and technology available today makes the hydrogen fuel cell cars more affordable and safe, but the main reason they may now succeed is that there is a greater worldwide interest due to the global energy demand and rising fuel prices. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eV96FYiWRF2RYcMY-XEzQRmDqzM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eV96FYiWRF2RYcMY-XEzQRmDqzM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eV96FYiWRF2RYcMY-XEzQRmDqzM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/eV96FYiWRF2RYcMY-XEzQRmDqzM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new wave of hydrogen fuel cell\u00a0cars is not due to new technology, but instead a demand from the public in response to rising gas prices. In fact, fuel cells have been around since the early 1800&#8217;s. Even so the first car to put fuel cell technology to use was the 1966 GM Electrovan.\u00a0 This\u00a0van&#8217;s\u00a0fuel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}