Of the many Chinese car manufacturers, some of the Malaysian public would have been introduced to the ChangAn brand already because of the ChangAn MPV that has been spotted going around the Klang Valley on road tests.
Anyhow, ChangAn’s R&D has been advancing and their labs have managed to churn out something much more advanced than the ChangAn CM8 – China’s first independently-developed hydrogen engine!
ChangAn began to research this hydrogen engine back in 2005, and a prototype has been produced after 2 years.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
Scary, for some reason I think compressed hydrogen and China’s current “excellent” manufacturing quality standards just don’t mix well. That, and their many fireworks factory.
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“Recently the poison Made in China foods and products cases at America has brought a NEW nickname to CHINA product…….. which is “CHINA FREEâ€. American Consumers prefer to buy product like “SUGAR FREE†, “XXX FREEâ€, and now with the new Sticker of “CHINA FREE†meant no made in China or not even used Chinese raw materials to produce this product as selling point.
This made in China Hidrogen Engine might be the same, full of doubt and safety concerns. Could be a DEADLY Bomb to you!”
well said… so i hope in future we malaysian shu put “proton free”…
hahaha
malaysia also have hydrofuel.. http://www.jairesources.com/
“claims to have cracked water-fuel secret” by malaysian already old story le… the news is big as i remember but thereafter, no more news and no result. my best guess either it is real and sold to other country or it has not been so perfect yet and can’t deliver the promises.
It didn’t mention anything about a fuel cell, which means this most likely work like an NGV but just replace the NG with H.
All you need to do is just tune timing, adjust compression and change stainless steel eksos pipe and add a NGV fuel tank and fuel lines on top of any car and it will run on hydrogen.
Source of hydrogen? There is no such thing as source of hydrogen unless each of our city is powered by nuclear reactor.
just forget about hydrogen! heavy compressed tank, wasting space and might blown-up issues
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diesel and biofuel are the true greens! save mother nature!
how they harvest/produce hydrogen ?
using air and electricity ? or what?
anyone kind to share ?
Recently the poison Made in China foods and products cases at America has brought a NEW nickname to CHINA product…….. which is "CHINA FREE". American Consumers prefer to buy product like "SUGAR FREE" , "XXX FREE", and now with the new Sticker of "CHINA FREE" meant no made in China or not even used Chinese raw materials to produce this product as selling point.
This made in China Hidrogen Engine might be the same, full of doubt and safety concerns. Could be a DEADLY Bomb to you!
where to recharge the car? are there lots of stations?
Why STAR TREK logo! Oh and I also just found out Mr. Sulu (George Takei) is GAY. He came out of the closet in 2005, apparently.
go back n sleep
how about the 2nd bridge for Penang, bulit by China…
is it safe???
Hehehe….
still remember the zap-x? electric car tahts base don the lotus apx and only uses about 10 minutes to charge to full…with the miles of a small car…ect one mileage with that short duration of charge….
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still remember the zap-x? electric car thats base don the lotus apx and only uses about 10 minutes to charge to full…with the miles of a small car…ect long mileage with that short duration of charge….
independent technologies from china! at least they hv a try. compared to the most coward auto-maker in the world.
Agree with PTA. Thumb up for ChangAn. Myself got impressed by China man how determine they are. But lack of creativity and business minded [profits].
Hydrogen is mainly found from water (H2O) as i know there’s technology to seperate H2O to independent molecule. Not sure, either the device not suitable or not realiable to use it on automobile industry yet. (Please correct me if i were wrong)
On other hand, its not easy path to bring these technologies into consumer market as most petroleum companies will be impact the most and greatly impact to our global economy. What i do believe were, someone already had these technology but awaiting for “something”
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“how about the 2nd bridge for Penang, bulit by China…”
huh?!!? never heard of any news saying PG 2nd Link built by China!!
all we know China lend us some billion of US Dollar to build the bridge.. you can say that US Dollar “Made in China”. since they are so good at copycat, damm sure the US Dollar is also copy cat… else how can they have so much reserve? china everything copy people ma… build car copy, build computer copy, build summarine copy, build nuke copy, build space rocket copy, build ICBM also copy, so earn money it shu be copy also.
If we Malaysian can learn the art of copying people, we will surely moving forward.
How many years have China been making cars compared to how many years Proton has been making cars?
Want to make a bet given the same time as Proton, quality wont be an issue ?
Dunno about you but the logo kinda looks like o0o
lolz XD
d logo look like a famous japanese car logo
i bet y’all know which 1.
hey,where is our “hybrid” car dat was launched in johor last year?
hydro-fuel…my aXX!!