New Scientist: HUGO SPOWERS puts his foot down. The car leaps forward, pressing me into the passenger seat. I`m zipping through London in a new kind of vehicle: its motors are in its wheels, it brakes without friction and it can drive 480 kilometres on one tank of the lightest element in the universe.
Spowers is taking me for a spin in the Rasa, a prototype hydrogen car that emits only water vapour. Trying to power a normal car with hydrogen usually requires a bulky fuel cell capable of delivering the same output...