Nissan TeRRA Concept All-Electric

[darylzero]

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/09/ni ... ctric.html

Nissan notes that the concept signals that the company "is ready to mass-produce fuel cell electric vehicles whenever hydrogen becomes widely available"

[audtatious]

Something else that will get horribly limited mileage and strand you out in the woods

[alms24sebring]

Can they ever try better to atleast make them look any more attractive.

[OriginalWheelman]

Looks like Will.I.Am got his hands on a Juke.

[audtatious]

Looks like Will.I.Am got his hands on a Juke.

Nah, has standard door handles so I'm sure it's missing the lambo-door option

[darylzero]

Yeah it's definitely ugly!

Look at floor though. Nissan says that since there's no need for drive shafts to power the rear wheels, the car's floor is completely flat. That would be weird to look at.

[Rev_D21]

Whoever thought up that interior must have eaten at Taco Bell the night before.

[krash]

If we're hypothesizing that hydrogen stations are going to be widely available, why aren't we looking into hydrogen combustion engines?

[Ace2cool]

Good question. The answer is, because oil companies like making money.

[themadscientist]

Carmakers, for the umpteenth G-Damned time, electric vehicles do not have to be goofy looking! Just make a small, tasteful vehicle with an electric drive system and decent range. STOOPIDS!

[Bubba1]

Yuk. Looks like a Juke with a Joan Rivers facelift. A better name might be the Nissan Puke.

[sx moneypit]

[MinisterofDOOM]

How are you supposed to see out of that thing? It has a worse case of Gunslit Window than the Camaro.

I don't want SUV's to look ridiculously tall and ungainly like the Lexus GX470 did, but if you've got five feet of vertical height, let's devote more than 6 inches to windows, yeah?

[Bubba1]

Ok, did anyone else feel this way when they saw first saw the TeRRA concept...?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhrPNp1yod4[/youtube]

[krash]

That was my reaction when the Murano Cabriolet came out

[mmkeller]

You've got to hate it when auto designers start thinking they are sculptors??? That might just be in an art museum one day......

[alms24sebring]

That looks an awful lot like the 'stubbed my toe' pain inducing scream as well

[Bubba1]

You've got to hate it when auto designers start thinking they are sculptors??? That might just be in an art museum one day......

...like "Ripley's Believe it or not" beside a 2 headed goat?

[C-Kwik]

If we're hypothesizing that hydrogen stations are going to be widely available, why aren't we looking into hydrogen combustion engines?

Currently, the primary source of hydrogen is through reforming natural gas. That is, you strip methane of its carbon and you are left with hydrogen. The problem with burning hydrogen is that some of the exhaust byproducts that form from burning hydrocarbons still exist. Primarily NOx emissions. From a storage standpoint, it is similar to methane so you either keep it under high pressure or at low temps so it offers only one practical advantage. Burning hydrogen does not emit CO2. However, in a well to wheel analysis, in order for it to have zero CO2, the carbon atoms stripped from the methane in the reforming process needs to be sequestered by attaching it to something other than oxygen that is stable enough not to ultimately end up as CO2 later either or sequestering the CO2 altogether. Ultimately, for all the trouble, its probably just easier to burn methane directly. Its already a low carbon fuel as it yields the least amount of carbon for each unit of energy.

Fuel cells would eliminate exhaust byproducts but share the same problems otherwise.

Ultimately, the ideal scenario for hydrogen as a fuel would be if we could use it as an energy storage medium by getting it from water. The original energy source would have to be a renewable source for it to make it of any long term practical value though (as an alternative fuel).

[themadscientist]

Go Methane!

[JMed]

Go Methane!

LMAO!

What's with Nissan and ugly cars? Because that concept is ugly

[MinisterofDOOM]

Ok, did anyone else feel this way when they saw first saw the TeRRA concept...?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhrPNp1yod4[/youtube]

Holy crap, I completely forgot Sam Rockwell is in Galaxy Quest. MUST WATCH AGAIN NOW!

[RicerX]

Get ready - this is justification to kill the Xterra.

That thing looks like it's got gout of the a**.