You must not be from America, I take it. His "American accent" is just as bad as most American's attempts at an "English accent". First, there are as many regional accents in the US as there are in the UK...maybe not quite as pronounced, but there are there. Second, none of them sound like what Clarkson came up with. It's sort of a hybrid of midwestern American and maybe Northwestern? I've never heard anyone who actually talks like that, even on TV.
I really hope that hydrogen cars work and become mainstream. I mean, all lovely for the environment and everything but it means more petrol for the rest of us petrolheads!
Actually, hydrogen would give more power, because it burns more aggressively, and it's lighter, so you can carry more of it. Aston Martin recently ran a V8 Vantage on hydrogen, with just a few basic modifications to the engine. They say this could easily be done to any existing car.
So that's burning hydrogen rather than a hydrogen fuel cell like the Honda FCX? That's interesting, I didn't think that was practical for a personal car.
About that hydrogen Aston Martin Rapide. It really did work quite well! A normal engine and transmission and everything... Just water vapor exiting the pipes. Imagine having that instead of that electric car nonsense the world is led to believe in...
The problem with hydrogen as a fuel is that it has to be created. Albeit it being the most common element, it is very rare on the Earth as free gas. It is not like petrol, which was made by Mother Earth, but it has to be extracted in a "factory" (usually from fossil fuels). So it is like electricity: just a way to transport energy, and as that it is inefficient. I doubt hydrogen will ever be efficient enough to be the main power source in most cars. Electric cars are so much more efficient and their major problems of range and charging times are rapidly diminishing. If hydrogen generation can be made efficient enough, it might be used for energy storage with solar and wind power. Also there might be a market for portable hydrogen fuel cell range extenders.
I REALLY hope hydrogen gets worked out eventually, it's the future IMO, electric cars are just too much of a compromise. they've seemed to have proven themselves to be fairly fragile, and if (or rather when) they do break they're damn near impossible to work on without just bringing it to a professional. plus charging your car is really annoying, even if charge times are reduced they're never gonna be as quick as just pumping gas. and finally they pollute more than gas just because of battery production, and even if you ignore batteries they're still effectively running on fossil fuel since 75% of electricity is produced through those means...
The problem with hydrogen powered car is that it's hard to actually get usable hydrogen for the car, it costs more and use energy more to get or create that rather than using electric or gasoline, so until we can efficiently produce hydrogen we probably won't get any car that uses hydrogen. Probably the best bet is nuclear powered car like in fallout but maybe that's just what I want
Just worked out that to buy a £15,000 car, with the cash back ratio of £100 spent : £4 back to spend, only by buying pies, it would take him 3005 years. (£100 : £4) (Ratio of 25:1) Therefore, 375,000:15,000 £15000 x 25 = £375000 spent to get £15000 credit, £375000/£2.4 (the amount he said he spent on pies, 2 at £1.20) = 156250 weeks, divided by 52 = 3004.8 years.....I’m bored
@@GuninGames No, it's because their economy is what is it due to the huge amounts of oil they have there, and hydrogen fuel cells would render oil useless.
It's funny because now almost every car has collision mitigation braking now. It essentially watches the road and if it thinks you're not going to stop it will stop for you.
The problem with hydrogen cars isn't making an engine that works on hydrogen, it's making the hydrogen in an environmentally and financially viable manner and storing it. And today the technologies don't exist yet.
tavi921 hydrolysis is fairly effective and can be carried out with little equipment, theoretically in the filling station. I'd say safety is the biggest problem
There's also energy density. You have to fit an extremely rarified gas that likes to wiggle it's way out of everything, into your car. With plumbing, fill up taps, a tank at the gas station, the entire fuel system all the way to the refinery where you get it has to keep hydrogen gas from escaping. Hydrocarbons, aliphatic chains like, IDK Octane are essentually carriers for hydrogen fuel, but they're Dense, liquids at room temperature. The problem is, they're chained together with Carbons. I'm looking into an Ammonia 2 stage fuel cell. (2 fuel cells, in series) which produces nothing but Nitrogen, Water Vapor, and electric power. Because an Ammonia tank is much easier to fit onboard.
It's not "The" problem with HFCCs (Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars.) It's the technological hurdles, plural, of replacing the entire Energy industry, with anything. Buying A, single HFCC is not going to change the planet, either. It's an atmosphere, not a light switch. (Also, you don't "Make" the hydrogen. Everything else, in the universe, is fused out of Hydrogens. It's the atomic building block of all chemical matter, that we know of. Making hydrogen was never a problem.)
The problem with Hydrolysis is where do you get the energy to electrify the water from? If it's a power plant, then the net effect is 0, you have the same amount of carbondioxides going into the atmopshere at the plant, instead of on the road, only you have to build a shitton more Hydrolysis plants, with Disel powered trucks to ship everything there, and run the equipment like buldozers. It's a SYSTEM. Changing the cars aren't going to fix the entire system, in fact cars are a less significant factor than the diesel powered tanker trucks they drive around the oil fields, to fill up the tanks on the pumps, that pull the crude oil out of the ground. We need greener Tractor Trailers. If you want to fix it at the highways, look at them, and everything around you that was shipped to your city, on the back of a Diesel powered lorry.
10 years later - James May owns a fully functional Hydrogen Fuel Cell car and there's filling stations around. I don't know about the guy who invented storing the hydrogen, but his name is not Jeff Bezos.
i think that hydrogen power makes a ton of sense. unfortunatly nobody has bothered to work on hydrogen storing so they arent that popular. people are buying hybrids and electric cars despite the fact that they polute more to make than normal cars.
I really think they were right about hydrogen fuel cells. For people who drive longer distances, BEVs are a problem because batteries are heavy, take a while to charge, and don’t hold all that much energy. 3 kg of hydrogen can store 100 kWh. To get the same energy from a battery, it’d weigh 625 kg (Tesla Model S P100D). Another issue with batteries is that it’s just not sustainable to produce them. They require a lot lithium and several rare metals. Making a lot of big battery packs is not sustainable. A better option is to have HFCs paired to a small battery (no more than a couple kWh for regenerative braking). One Tesla model S battery could be turned into 50 batteries for an HFC or even 5 PHEV batteries. BEVs have a lot of obstacles to overcome if they want to be viable which is why I’m not betting on them
Jay Leno has a coal fired steam car. Just saying. He's socially aware, but Caroll Shelby? Immense respect for the man, but WTF is he doing within 500 miles of that meeting?
It was a very old Cadillac. 1910 time frame. Then of course this being Top Gear they claim because an Austin was set up the same a decade later it was actually done by the British and not the Americans.
If hydrogen becomes mor mainstream, then it could cause tesla to declare bankruptcy in a month, because very little modification needs to be done to gas-powered engines to make them run on hydrogen.
I remember that bit, and it was really interesting. Iirc, it turned out to be the 1916 Cadillac, which was copied (in a manner of speaking) by the Austin 7, which sold about eleventy-six thousand cars, so it became "the norm".
Manlike JasedoubleD you are just jealous you live on a council estate driving a fiat pinto. The amount of money Saudi made from oil can easily last them 400 years.
"Drinking petrol supercharging their chairs" I fell
Off your supercharged chair ?
@@richardslav9282 I fell again, 11 years later, aged 30.
" I know what a hybrid is, it's like country and western"- Carol Shelby.
Professional Slav *Carroll Shelby
Professional Slav
A Nuuu
-Jeremy Clarkson
The Saudi Arabian bit had me in stitches, quality telly
I'm glad you laughed. However we are still rich lol
ah yeah the government and a minority of the population... while everyone else lives in slums, what a 'rich' country. lmao
No we're not rich.
@@mohammedalharbi3191 Lmao.... Riyadh and Jeddah have bits of wealthy households and then vast slums. Who are you kidding.
@@lalnablehector1285 ooh someone seems jealous
Drinking petrol and supercharging their chairs XD
The electric future is just sad😑😑 because only thing it can't create is that beautiful engine noise😞😞
@@szn00 so true 😪
No caroll car petrol bad for helf
I mean what do you do to your chairs?
@@sonyviva308 shut mouth jack
"I know what a hybrid is, it's like country and western"
Lost my shit
Lol "back to carpets"
When you say to women 'whats wrong'? 'Nothing'...well there is because the steering wheel has gone red.
omg jeremy does the best american accent
As an American I have the Best American Accent.
As an American I didn't know we had an accent
Toby Toyota You do.
You must not be from America, I take it. His "American accent" is just as bad as most American's attempts at an "English accent". First, there are as many regional accents in the US as there are in the UK...maybe not quite as pronounced, but there are there. Second, none of them sound like what Clarkson came up with. It's sort of a hybrid of midwestern American and maybe Northwestern? I've never heard anyone who actually talks like that, even on TV.
Jeremy rocking the original iPhone.
As an American, I can confirm that Jeremy's mockery of us is substantially accurate.
6:19 "If you're watching this in Saudi Arabia... XD!!!!"
How the entire western world will react when hydrogen cars become practical. :D
still waitin....
The car with the colour changing steering wheel looks like a milk delivery vehicle.
Self drive Pope mobile. If I were to drive that I certainly would want someone to shoot me
0:45 Original iPhone
I want Top Gear back - badly :(
2:29 is the time stamp for Clarkson saying “Shuddup you god damn frenchie cheese-eating surrender monkey.” In the wonderful American accent.
For so long I had no idea he was saying “Ford Ka.” His accent made it sound like “car”
I really hope that hydrogen cars work and become mainstream.
I mean, all lovely for the environment and everything but it means more petrol for the rest of us petrolheads!
Actually, hydrogen would give more power, because it burns more aggressively, and it's lighter, so you can carry more of it. Aston Martin recently ran a V8 Vantage on hydrogen, with just a few basic modifications to the engine. They say this could easily be done to any existing car.
Shane Fell But whoever makes a car out of Hydrogen would be silenced by the Oil Companies
So that's burning hydrogen rather than a hydrogen fuel cell like the Honda FCX? That's interesting, I didn't think that was practical for a personal car.
About that hydrogen Aston Martin Rapide. It really did work quite well! A normal engine and transmission and everything... Just water vapor exiting the pipes. Imagine having that instead of that electric car nonsense the world is led to believe in...
The problem with hydrogen as a fuel is that it has to be created. Albeit it being the most common element, it is very rare on the Earth as free gas. It is not like petrol, which was made by Mother Earth, but it has to be extracted in a "factory" (usually from fossil fuels). So it is like electricity: just a way to transport energy, and as that it is inefficient.
I doubt hydrogen will ever be efficient enough to be the main power source in most cars. Electric cars are so much more efficient and their major problems of range and charging times are rapidly diminishing. If hydrogen generation can be made efficient enough, it might be used for energy storage with solar and wind power. Also there might be a market for portable hydrogen fuel cell range extenders.
I REALLY hope hydrogen gets worked out eventually, it's the future IMO, electric cars are just too much of a compromise. they've seemed to have proven themselves to be fairly fragile, and if (or rather when) they do break they're damn near impossible to work on without just bringing it to a professional. plus charging your car is really annoying, even if charge times are reduced they're never gonna be as quick as just pumping gas.
and finally they pollute more than gas just because of battery production, and even if you ignore batteries they're still effectively running on fossil fuel since 75% of electricity is produced through those means...
The problem with hydrogen powered car is that it's hard to actually get usable hydrogen for the car, it costs more and use energy more to get or create that rather than using electric or gasoline, so until we can efficiently produce hydrogen we probably won't get any car that uses hydrogen. Probably the best bet is nuclear powered car like in fallout but maybe that's just what I want
I love the WRX STi because it gave me exactly what was advertised.
Lool
Just worked out that to buy a £15,000 car, with the cash back ratio of £100 spent : £4 back to spend, only by buying pies, it would take him 3005 years.
(£100 : £4) (Ratio of 25:1)
Therefore, 375,000:15,000
£15000 x 25 = £375000 spent to get £15000 credit, £375000/£2.4 (the amount he said he spent on pies, 2 at £1.20) = 156250 weeks, divided by 52 = 3004.8 years.....I’m bored
I was dead for a long time when clarkson said “Time to break down your camel”
break out *
Flippin love that episode. Specially the next bit where they go to Beaulieu!
28% of Europeans choose TVR
Facts
a supercharged chair would be insane.
rolon96 2810 they made a v8 chair. Is that enough?
6:21 WTF 😂
lol u mad bro
nah its cool
he's so mean lmao it's cause they have no water
@@GuninGames No, it's because their economy is what is it due to the huge amounts of oil they have there, and hydrogen fuel cells would render oil useless.
"Its back to carpets for you"
Its fun and also kinda depressing to see all the cool concept cars and teasers in these old episodes that never came to be..
*” T I M E T O B R E A K O U T Y O U R C A M E L . “*
That Ford Transit van that was on the screen was the same van that Jeremy bought for the van challenges they did
Jeremy haves the original iPhone
Parkski gaming - has*
It's funny because now almost every car has collision mitigation braking now. It essentially watches the road and if it thinks you're not going to stop it will stop for you.
The problem with hydrogen cars isn't making an engine that works on hydrogen, it's making the hydrogen in an environmentally and financially viable manner and storing it. And today the technologies don't exist yet.
tavi921 hydrolysis is fairly effective and can be carried out with little equipment, theoretically in the filling station. I'd say safety is the biggest problem
There's also energy density. You have to fit an extremely rarified gas that likes to wiggle it's way out of everything, into your car. With plumbing, fill up taps, a tank at the gas station, the entire fuel system all the way to the refinery where you get it has to keep hydrogen gas from escaping. Hydrocarbons, aliphatic chains like, IDK Octane are essentually carriers for hydrogen fuel, but they're Dense, liquids at room temperature. The problem is, they're chained together with Carbons. I'm looking into an Ammonia 2 stage fuel cell. (2 fuel cells, in series) which produces nothing but Nitrogen, Water Vapor, and electric power. Because an Ammonia tank is much easier to fit onboard.
It's not "The" problem with HFCCs (Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars.) It's the technological hurdles, plural, of replacing the entire Energy industry, with anything. Buying A, single HFCC is not going to change the planet, either. It's an atmosphere, not a light switch. (Also, you don't "Make" the hydrogen. Everything else, in the universe, is fused out of Hydrogens. It's the atomic building block of all chemical matter, that we know of. Making hydrogen was never a problem.)
The problem with Hydrolysis is where do you get the energy to electrify the water from? If it's a power plant, then the net effect is 0, you have the same amount of carbondioxides going into the atmopshere at the plant, instead of on the road, only you have to build a shitton more Hydrolysis plants, with Disel powered trucks to ship everything there, and run the equipment like buldozers. It's a SYSTEM. Changing the cars aren't going to fix the entire system, in fact cars are a less significant factor than the diesel powered tanker trucks they drive around the oil fields, to fill up the tanks on the pumps, that pull the crude oil out of the ground. We need greener Tractor Trailers. If you want to fix it at the highways, look at them, and everything around you that was shipped to your city, on the back of a Diesel powered lorry.
Increasing the efficiency of SUVs by 10 percent saves far more fuel than increasing the efficiency of an econobox by 10 percent.
I have that blue two tone ford ka weird seeing it in a old top gear episode.
Michael Caulder now you sir, are a legend. Keep that car
I am from Saudi and i laughed
2:41
Texas Jeremy
10 years later - James May owns a fully functional Hydrogen Fuel Cell car and there's filling stations around.
I don't know about the guy who invented storing the hydrogen, but his name is not Jeff Bezos.
i think that hydrogen power makes a ton of sense. unfortunatly nobody has bothered to work on hydrogen storing so they arent that popular. people are buying hybrids and electric cars despite the fact that they polute more to make than normal cars.
The reason why they aren't popular is because they are explosive (hydrogen fuel cells, idk if that's what you are talking about)
6:15 Alien alert
Where can I buy that picture of Freddie Mercury? ;)
The Two-Tone Ka, yeah I see that constantly
I really think they were right about hydrogen fuel cells. For people who drive longer distances, BEVs are a problem because batteries are heavy, take a while to charge, and don’t hold all that much energy. 3 kg of hydrogen can store 100 kWh. To get the same energy from a battery, it’d weigh 625 kg (Tesla Model S P100D). Another issue with batteries is that it’s just not sustainable to produce them. They require a lot lithium and several rare metals. Making a lot of big battery packs is not sustainable. A better option is to have HFCs paired to a small battery (no more than a couple kWh for regenerative braking). One Tesla model S battery could be turned into 50 batteries for an HFC or even 5 PHEV batteries. BEVs have a lot of obstacles to overcome if they want to be viable which is why I’m not betting on them
4:08 and *hErE iT iS*
Jay Leno has a coal fired steam car. Just saying. He's socially aware, but Caroll Shelby? Immense respect for the man, but WTF is he doing within 500 miles of that meeting?
6:40 what was the car?
It was a very old Cadillac. 1910 time frame. Then of course this being Top Gear they claim because an Austin was set up the same a decade later it was actually done by the British and not the Americans.
So May uses electric curlers?
It’s back to carpets for you
Could this be the car where inside out got it emtoial character from
@DdlyHeadshot It should be somewhere here on YT. Just search for Top Gear old cars and you should find it somewhere.
Classic TG.
What's happened to the Clarity now?
If hydrogen becomes mor mainstream, then it could cause tesla to declare bankruptcy in a month, because very little modification needs to be done to gas-powered engines to make them run on hydrogen.
I Wanna see the first normal car thing
I remember that bit, and it was really interesting. Iirc, it turned out to be the 1916 Cadillac, which was copied (in a manner of speaking) by the Austin 7, which sold about eleventy-six thousand cars, so it became "the norm".
I love America we put a RC car engine in a V8 and call it a hybrid
they did serious journalism for 5 minutes and then it all went to shit
And we love it
6:32 LOL at Arabs
3:56 dodgey sound editing there....
I chose Porsche because it brings on rectal prolapse- James May 2007
.....and I like it.....
THATS NOT A PRIUS!
@Racin3 it's not censored here, the BBC doesn't have rights to run it here.
I barely got 20mpg out of my 3.6 v6...
Spencer Peat well your stupid I get 22 mpg in my 4.6 mpg
Spencer Peat the McLaren 12C gets 30 MPG 🤣 crazy, eh?
German too
Need storage of hydrogen. Fuel cell better than batteries
He's James.
i hate that stupid tahoe. i hate it in general, but the hybrid is just stupid. luckily i dont see many hybrid versions on the road.
@DdlyHeadshot 3months late, in case you haven't seen it yet... watch?v=_amZsf8A1Lo
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lol at u im a muslim
and a arab
Manlike JasedoubleD you are just jealous you live on a council estate driving a fiat pinto. The amount of money Saudi made from oil can easily last them 400 years.
First, why do they pronounce Prius like that, secondly it’s a Toyota Prius, not a Prius Toyota