History of Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Who Made the First Hydrogen Car?

If you’re the kind of person who still hasn’t gotten their head around DVD players, and you prefer your technological advancements to arrive at the speed of a tortoise rather than a hare, the concept of hydrogen cars may cause you to pine for the days when penny-farthings ruled the roads. Vehicles powered by hydrogen may sound like something intimidating beamed in from the future, but it’s a transport technology that’s been around for far longer than you’d actually think. Read more about about hydrogen-powered carsWho made the first hydrogen car? The first internal-combustion-engined (ICE) vehicle to be powered by hydrogen looked more like a torture device than something that could reliably get you places, and it was created by Swiss inventor Francois Isaac de Rivaz in 1807, utilising a balloon filled with hydrogen, and oxygen. Technically you could call it the first…

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