The H2GO RC racer with fuel-cell power plant -- a panacea?

The achilles heel of RC racers has always been the battery. A few minutes of play after hours of charging is no way to waste the sacred years of youth -- we have video games for that. Now this race fans, the H2GO racer fueled by hydrogen cartridges from Horizon Fuel Cell. Produced by Corgi International, the clean running H2GO is designed by the slightly mad, Red White Barron of design -- Luigi Colani -- and ships with a water refueling station, solar panel, and remote control. Details are otherwise frustratingly scarce. Though we can assume that the car features water-activated HydroPak Mini prototype cells and will easily cost a couple of Benjamins by the time it goes production. Unfortunately, that would be sometime in late 2008 or 2009 based on Horizon Fuel Cell's earlier estimates of commercial fuel cell availability. Oh, the agony.

[Tom Oliveri @ Feb 7th 2008 2:22AM]

i could see buying several hundred of these and buying hydrogen tanks a good way to power my new oldsmobile

[Jagannath A @ Feb 7th 2008 2:29AM]

a placebo maybe ;)

[Technex @ Feb 7th 2008 3:58AM]

Wow seems great, but let me know when the successor to the Li-poly batteries come out that will work with the same chargers :).

A123 is good, and can be charged at 10A but they're heavy and you have to DIY your packs....

I dream of the day when us RC fliers can just charge up for 5 mins and then go flying for the day... Or even just have a 30 min flight, then charge again. Surely it can be done!

[Nigel @ Feb 7th 2008 4:17AM]

when all cars of the future run on water, how will they explode at the end of hollywood car chases?

[silverblackvoid @ Feb 7th 2008 5:59AM]

splat?

[techieguru16 @ Feb 7th 2008 7:20AM]

rotfl

=)

[Joe Maki @ Feb 7th 2008 9:12AM]

There is already a serious water shortage in the world. Running our cars off it will just expedite the water wars :)

[ScreamingSkull @ Feb 7th 2008 9:19AM]

Did someone say, IcePirates?

[geekboy314 @ Feb 8th 2008 5:15PM]

actually, they should blow up more, because that water is being split into pure hydrogen and oxygen...

try shooting a tank of pure hydrogen at a couple thousand psi and see what happens.

[trlrtsh2 @ Feb 9th 2008 4:37AM]

well, i don't really know how they will blow up, my only experience with hydrogen explosions are of the hiroshima, nagasaki and the American Southwest in the 50's variety, and that taught all of us that grew up in those eras or the 60's that when hydrogen blew up you bent over at hips and kissed your heiny goodbye...and prayed that the next world we got to was heaven and not hell....

[www.giftgadgetgateway.com @ Feb 8th 2008 12:54AM]

Its no doubt that we're slowly moving towards the future of transportation ! Such things are eminent and a bound to happen. Lets see how many people actually move towards H2O based cars !

[trevor @ Feb 8th 2008 3:58AM]

Kinda like how RC cars hailed the new age of electric-powered vehicles?

(No no, wait, let me do that again)

Emphasis on the "slowly"?

[Rob @ Feb 7th 2008 9:50AM]

See how these work:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iYl__K3YJ_w

[dean @ Feb 7th 2008 4:03PM]

I want an RC car that runs for 2 hours!

[c1906w @ Feb 8th 2008 5:13AM]

no-one seems to care that current petrol cars don't exploded when they crash in real life but do in films so why would it matter if water fueled cars exploded in the movies.
we're happy because it looks cool not because its realistic.

[Welby @ Feb 8th 2008 3:51PM]

"no-one seems to care that current petrol cars don't exploded when they crash in real life"

Tell that to Jason Schechterle.

[silverblackvoid @ Feb 9th 2008 2:07PM]

looks like a vacuum cleaner