H-Racer Toy Hydrogen Car

The H-Racer from Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is a palm-sized toy hydrogen car with its own fuel cell refueling station that creates hydrogen fuel by combining solar power and water. Watch the blinking lights and the hydrogen bubbling up in your little fuel station, and then dispense a tiny amount of hydrogen fuel into the H-Racer. Then it's off to the races!

The car is a working model, but the site doesn't tell us how you control the thing. Perhaps it just takes off and then you go running down the street, chasing it until the fuel runs out. Now all they have to do is just bring this baby up to full size and add a steering wheel. Yeah, that oughta happen in about 200 years or so. But this tiny version will be available next month for around $80 at specialty stores.

Product page [Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, via Jalopnik]

8:37 AM on Fri May 19 2006
By Charlie White
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jw at 09:46 AM on 05/19/06
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if it's anything like the remote-controlled cars i got as a kid, it'll break in 15 minutes. every remote car had the same horrible fate: stairs.
John Laur at 10:12 AM on 05/19/06
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Sweet Jesus does it actually have a fuel cell in it? For $80? Capable of driving the weight of a toy car big enough to contain said fuel cell? Seems to me that this product will be ripe for disassembly and hacking. Perhaps you could build a month-long laptop power source with a few of these and a better source for hydrogen.
mhleung at 10:21 AM on 05/19/06
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I guess $80 is for the toy car only, as the brochure states: Uses miniature solar hydrogen refueling station (sold separately) Ouch, another $80 for this. Plus, maybe, $80 for the remote control? Otherwise we'll have to chase the car down the street...
Invader J at 10:41 AM on 05/19/06
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"if it's anything like the remote-controlled cars i got as a kid, it'll break in 15 minutes. every remote car had the same horrible fate: stairs." Only this time, your fate is tied to its fate, because when this thing falls down the stairs the resulting hydrogen detonation will take half your house with it. =D
schapman43 at 10:41 AM on 05/19/06
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How many of those would it take to pull my Suburban around town?
Cardinal Fang at 12:50 PM on 05/19/06
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You could buy two, strap them to your feet, and commute to work....
jamesborne28 at 10:14 AM on 11/07/06
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it depends on your technological perceptions. for me, the company selling that toy is just introducing the fuel and machine of the future...someday, all of us would be riding one (think of the wireless gadgets like cellular phones, do they exist 50 years ago?) i will buy the toy someday, i will find a way to replicate it to produce more power to turn a car alternator -and in turn step the voltages and ampheres (covert it to AC) to generate electricity for my home. you have to see the big picture... open your minds to what the world would be...the start of the future is today not tomorrow...
bakeral1 at 02:18 AM on 12/19/07
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It only goes forward and backwards. Not sure if it comes with a remote...it only show car, solar panel and tank. Go here to see the video...[thenewsroom.com]