You can listen to the the Bob Siegel piece, “On the Road with GM’s Newest Hydrogen Car” here.
A bit disappointing, since Siegel interviewed me for 10 minutes, but barely used any of it. So this is kind of a fluff piece, as GM wants. Still NPR has a link to Climate Progress, so I can’t really complain … too much….
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Dr. Romm, I want to thank you. I was listening this very piece on NPR last night and I was getting pretty mad listening to the NPR guy get snookered by all the hyperbole coming from the GM guy about the car. My wife was in the car with me and I was just about shouting at the radio saying “where does the hydrogen come from? Natural gas? Do you have a trunk in this car or a big tank of gaseous hydrogen at high pressure?”
Fortunately you came on the piece and literally said everything that I wanted the listeners to hear on the subject. Thank you.
I really enjoyed the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and I understand you were in it. I’m an engineer, and love technological things and documentaries, but my wife is an English major and not necessarily so interested. I don’t how I got her to start watching the show but she ended up enjoying it immensely and recommending it to all her friends and family. At the end she turned to me and said “why don’t we own an electric car?”
This last week, starting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and then located in Palo Alto and elsewhere around Silicon Valley, Mercedes had a bunch of SMART cars being tried out by people, in preparation for 2008 USA launch.
They had one of the electric ones, buzzing around PA, claiming a range of 72 miles in city driving. Unfortunately, the line was too long for me to get a chance to try it out, but these were well-received. They couldn’t resist parking two of them, facing out, in one normal parallel slot. 72 miles may not be enough for general-purpose [something like the Toyota 1/X might make it, sometime], but is good enough for a lot of commutes and local travel, even without charging stations.
With a recent big uptick of solar PV in our town, I’m seeing more electric vehicles hauling kids to school … although there are still a lot of SUVs amongst the Priuses.