Wow! That's what I've been waiting for!
That does sound great on the surface, however there are still greenhouse gases created to produce the electricity to charge the "battery". There is a different and equally exciting development underway. See http://www.theaircar.com/ for more details about engines that run on compressed air.
IAAEE (I am an electrical engineer) and this is one of those "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" situations. Personally, I think they're full of it, but I could always be wrong, but they'll have to put up more than a press release to convince me.
Slashdot had several good comments on what it would take to charge up the car in five minutes.
Even beyond that, the limitations for electric vehicles has also been battery weight. Current batteries are good up to 100 W-h (watt-hours) per kilogram (2.2 lbs). $9 of electricity is somewhere between 50 - 100 kW-h. Just to hold the electricity they're claiming with batteries will take 1100 - 2200 pounds of existing batteries. If they really have a technology that beats batteries, there'd be lots of applications outside of cars that would be easier to commercialize (cough)laptops(cough).
Mike
This car looks interesting, and I've heard whispers before about ceramics making ICE engines more efficient. It's beyond great if it's true. If not, Honda's innovations in fuel cells are still encouraging, and (my favorite) the EPA/UPS hydraulic-hybrid system is in the works, hopefully, for everything from SUV's up to city buses.
nice review, thats a new car, very cool features, though the design is not very nice, I think they might redesign it...nice review...
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