The curtains are officially open. Extreme H is coming.
We had an amazing time at our official Extreme H launch event where we revealed our Pioneer 25 hydrogen powered race car. Thank you to everyone who has followed the journey so far, we’re just getting started!
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The launch of Extreme H's first hydrogen race car, the 'Pioneer 25,' marks a significant milestone not only for motorsport but for the broader adoption of green and hydrogen technology.
Unveiled with the iconic Tower Bridge as a backdrop, the Pioneer 25 is set to debut in April 2025. The vehicle, developed by Spark Racing Technology and powered by a 75kW hydrogen fuel cell from Symbio, highlights the performance and viability of hydrogen fuel cells in demanding environments. With a peak output of 400kw (550hp) and acceleration from 0-100kph in just 4.5 seconds, it demonstrates that sustainable technology can match and even surpass traditional power sources.
Alejandro Agag, Founder and CEO of Extreme H, emphasized that this launch is not just about a new vehicle but about pioneering the future of sustainable motorsport. This sentiment is a testament to the transformative potential of hydrogen technology in reducing global carbon footprints.
Extreme H’s inaugural season will span 10 rounds across five locations, kicking off in Saudi Arabia and concluding in the United States. This global reach will further demonstrate Hydrogen's capabilities as a fuel.
Interesting to see the evolution of the Formula E car from GEN1 to GEN3 and what kind of improvements there have been between generations. 🏎
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At the end of the New Year’s holiday I drove the 400 miles yesterday from Buffalo, New York I talked about in my attached repost below in my Toyota Prius for the 40 miles trip back.
On long drives you listen to music on your car stereo or have random thoughts.
So, I decided I would direct my thinking deliberately, to keep myself awake while driving, about how I can be Cornelius Vanderbilt to follow through on this attached repost of mine.
It took China 40 years, export dollars, and foreign direct investment (FDI) largely from the United States in U.S. dollars to build the infrastructure it did to the awe of every American who visited China for the Olympics in Beijing in 2008.
There are four parts to my repost below:
1. High speed Maglev rail with German Transrapid in the video shown.
This means 40,000 miles of passenger rail lines at an estimated cost of about $1.5 billion per 100 miles or a total of $60 trillion investment over 10 years beginning 2025 through 2035.
And freight rail upgrades so that all interstate commerce is off the truckers and back on rail, with only local commerce on trucks.
2. Clean energy which requires upgrading at a cost of $1.5 billion per existing coal plant to zero emissions FutureGen coal power combined with rooftop solar and a Midwest wind corridor T.Boone Pickens was talking to General Electric about.
3. Refurbishing and streamlining the national electricity grid between regions to reduce transmission losses and increase failover redundancy.
4. Working with Detroit to compete with Toyota on gas-electric hybrid upgrade to their full product lines.
Cars would largely be used within a 50 miles radius of every major city center complemented by commuter rail and remote work, greatly reducing oil consumption.
It has become a national parlor game and pastime to mock America’s wealthy.
I would argue that the wealthy must be left alone.
The new wealth which can be created and spread around to create more wealthy rather than wealth concentrated between Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and the like, from the above 4 changes to the country’s infrastructure, by my estimate would create 6000 new type of corporations with an investment of $1 billion into each of them every year for the next 10 years, at least on average 10 such corporations per Congressional district, to get this done.
How can this be financed?
Certainly not by Treasury’s Keynesianism but the #federalreserve’s monetarism, more technical economics which requires the Fed to be persuaded to do so by 2025.
Fed can finance this by paying down all of the national debt to zero and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can get her Green New Deal with no burden on tax payers.
3 Nobel prizes, 2 in economics and 1 in peace, would be in tow, without appearing to take the Nobel Committee for granted.
If United States could do Apollo in a decade, this can be done very easily if we stop talking and start working.
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I have driven umpteen times to Buffalo to visit my sister’s family from the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. where I live in the past close to 5 years.
It is a distance of about 400 miles and takes around 8 hours by my Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrid with near-zero emissions at 50 miles/gallon requiring no external electricity charging or battery changing station as required by a Tesla.
Current gasoline stations work. Nothing changes.
The round trip drive costs me $80 or less.
If I have 3 others sitting in the car with me it will cost me the same.
If Toyota changes its entire product line as it originally envisioned to the gas-electric hybrid model similar to the Prius, and a family of 5 travels the same distance in a family van as most American families do, the round trip will cost the family around $160.
Far less than air travel.
Now imagine the entire length of the existing roadway route is augmented by German Maglev Transrapid High Speed Rail traveling at a minimum speed of 200 miles/hour, with barely any changes to the landscape and zero emissions if the rail line is electrified by clean electricity from the grid, as shown in the attached engineering, not marketing, video from Transrapid.
The same 400 mile distance will take 2 hours instead of 8, cutting the time by a fourth, about double the flying time but far less than door-to-door air travel time.
Can the price point of $640 for a round trip for a family of 5 be met by Transrapid Maglev if I quadrupled the cost of car travel, assuming families would prefer to “fly on the ground” as seen in the video?
It is possible if I try to be Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Can Europe catch up in the EV race?
As the EU works to implement its new green industrial strategy, I spoke with Elettra Ardissino, Senior Europe Analyst at Greenmantle, to discuss how China’s dramatic surge in electric vehicle producing in is reshaping world markets.
How is electrification changing the global car market? How did EU policies accidentally encourage more China-based EV manufacturing? Should Europe lower its targets for domestic manufacture of key green goods?