BMW’s V12-Powered Hydrogen 7 Was Dumb But a Total Power Move

BMW’s Hydrogen V12 Engine Is A Hilarious Engineering StuntHydrogen as a vehicle fuel, particularly hydrogen as a combustible rather than as a part of a fuel cell system as in a Hyundai Nexo or Toyota Mirai, is kind of contentious. It’s not a super efficient way to make power, and while Toyota is tinkering with the technology in race cars these days, BMW tried to make it a thing in the early aughts with the Hydrogen 7.What’s the Hydrogen 7, and why have you probably not heard of it, and, more importantly, how dumb of an idea and implementation was it way back in 2005? Well, thankfully, we have Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske to help us with those last two parts. The worst 7 Series with the weirdest drivetrain.Photo: Sachi Gahan via WikipediaAs you’ll see, BMW made a lot of really weird choices that required some major sacrifices that nobody would have been willing to…

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