BMW iX5 Hydrogen - Is This The Future?

At the 2024 Art Basel, BMW made a striking impression by unveiling a uniquely artistic color scheme for the BMW iX5 Hydrogen. The new design, created by renowned artist Es Devlin, stood out brilliantly amidst the vibrant and creative crowd.
In this video, Michael Rath, Head of BMW Hydrogen project, talks to us about the iX5, its technology and the future of hydrogen-powered BMWs.
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[@F85M]

This we can get behind. Aside from infrastructure. This is > Bev "Long-Term" not some short termer like all the Tesla battery boys about to flood the comment sections.

[@bmwblog]

Infrastructure is a big if still

[@CheddarKungPao]

Hydogen cars still need batteries my dude.

[@F85M]

@@CheddarKungPao so do Duramax & Cummings holmes.

[@CheddarKungPao]

@@F85M not talking about 12v i mean the same lithium ion high voltage batteries that BEVs use.

[@jrbigger]

How are they producing hydrogen? Who owns the companies producing hydrogen?

[@sebastianstoica578]

You can produce hydrogen at home yourself.

[@AA-pu8zf]

Yes they are! Lets go hydrogen !

[@파일럿주원]

It can be the future

[@ModelY2024]

Hydrogen?? Let’s gooooooooo. Thank you very much for sharing the news!

[@trexeyesonly55]

its not news, it is dead already check what happened to Toyota Mira owners

[@sebastianstoica578]

@@trexeyesonly55, the cars are brilliant, the fuel infrastructure is the problem.

[@trexeyesonly55]

infrastructure problem is the result of problems with hydrogen, therefore if the name of a car is "hydrogen" car then it is not brilliant, rather a lost time

[@Chris21709]

He said winter driving is no problem because of all the waste heat given off by the inefficient fuel cell during the conversion of hydrogen to electricity (sort of like a fossil fuel engine).

[@bmwblog]

Yes, that's one of the advantages

[@trexeyesonly55]

@@bmwblog advantage in summer as well? it is an inefficiency, how it could be advantage??

[@jimj2683]

@@trexeyesonly55 Why does the efficiency matter so much to you?

[@trexeyesonly55]

@@jimj2683 what? To me? It should matter to all of you if we speak of energy. In simplest you wanna pay more for less if you don't think about efficiency. Second you will pollute more for less if you don't account efficiency. If you have infinite resources then go ahead, but we don't live in such world. You can be so much rich, even in that case you cannot throw away the energy that it is very difficult for some to get

[@mrichards913]

From memory, they researched this along with Toyota in the nineties. I believe that Porsche are looking into different fuels too. I’m not a great EV enthusiast at this juncture, the carbon foot print is there during manufacture and I worry where the power is coming from if we all converted, we haven’t invested in Nuclear power stations and l don’t believe that wind power is sufficient. ICE is here for a while, unless of course everyone wishes to covert to “peddle power” Best regards

[@dragosz0r]

Man at the current rate that companys who make PV panels,are cutting cost, the green energy will be very cheap at daytime. Think about it, all those pump that move petrol from the deep pockets, then they need to heat up the petrol to make gas and diesel, thats a lot of energy. If the gov didnt help them with this cost, gas prices would have been 2x by now. EV are the future, just wait for better batterys.

[@NomadJedi]

Hope BMW can make this work. They mention for bigger vehicles it would work great, but my thought would be to apply this to trucks, which is an area where the BEV application just completely fails. Not to mention that this would allow constructors to make more cars with the same amount of material for one electric vehicle.

[@urbanstrencan]

We need more than 1 power source for the future great work BMW

[@xtp-knight7418]

What is the weight of the car?

[@bmwblog]

Same weight as x5 phev

[@DavidJCarrell]

Hydrogen is already winning for Class 8 trucking and public transit. Green hydrogen will be cheaper than diesel within 5 years. As for personal transportation, the market has spoken and plug in hybrids have won

[@trexeyesonly55]

even with hybrid, petroleum is not winner in anycase

[@wdbsurfer]

I always laugh when I hear people make comments about whether hydrogen vehicles make sense. They seem to forget that electric vehicles have been around since the 1800s. However, it’s only within the last 10-20 years that they’ve started to become almost ready for the mainstream. This is how technological advancements work. Yes, hydrogen vehicle technology may not be ready for mass adoption at the moment but things may look very different 10-20 years from now as the rate of advancement through R&D accelerates. The other joke is when people whine that the fossil fuel companies are behind hydrogen technology R&D so they can keep selling fossil fuels to us. I wonder who they think are the real big players and money brokers behind the supply of electricity for BEVs 👀. We’re talking about companies with trillions on the line and who have the power to buy instead of build. Pray tell, who does one think will win in the end, irrespective of the technology? The same big players.

[@Chris21709]

Refueling "just like" an ICE? That's good? Having to drive to a gas station and paying a fortune for a tank of highly toxic and combustible liquid, when you could plug in at home in three seconds. Hydrogen is hugely inefficient and expensive, which is why it's been an abject failure in the one market where they are sold.

[@jellyd4889]

Toxic? You forget that electricity can kill you quicker :) ... just a quip

[@wdbsurfer]

The whole point of what BMW is doing is R&D, rather than saying, “Okay fine, everyone is going down the BEV route, so let’s stick to that.” It’s called innovation. If it proves to be commercially non-viable, then it won’t take off. However, BEVs have questionable commercial viability at the moment on a number of metrics. Furthermore, when everyone converts to BEVs and the demand on grids becomes excessive, not to mention governments who lose out from fuel duties, etc start taxing electricity usage higher, what do you think will happen to the cost?

[@wdbsurfer]

The whole point of what BMW is doing is R&D, rather than saying, “Okay fine, everyone is going down the BEV route, so let’s stick to that.” It’s called innovation. If it proves to be commercially non-viable, then it won’t take off. However, BEVs have questionable commercial viability at the moment on a number of metrics. Furthermore, when everyone converts to BEVs and the demand on grids becomes excessive, not to mention governments who lose out from fuel duties, etc, what do you think will happen to the cost?

[@wdbsurfer]

Some may even argue that it is better for the environment long term and reduces the risk of children being used to mine earth metals.

[@saltydog4349]

Hydrogen fuel cell theN maybe

[@trexeyesonly55]

While Toyota Mirai owners sue Toyota, BMW is following Toyota lead and believes in inefficient hydrogen future??

[@lt9778]

Hydrogen is much better and save environmental.

[@CheddarKungPao]

Hydrogen makes no sense. You need all the components of an EV and then additionally an expensive fuel cell and pumps and tanks for the hydrogen. Then you add on all the inefficiencies of creating, transporting and storing hydrogen vs. transmitting and storing electricity and Hydrogen is so inefficient and expensive that it is beyond silly to pursue it. The main reason it won't go away is the fossil fuel industry is the main source of hydrogen today and they want to trick us into believing Hydrogen is the future so they can keep selling us fossil fuels.

[@bmwblog]

There are pros and cons, I agree. I guess biggest pro is refilling times, if you have a good infrastructure and the ability to convert gas stations into hydrogen ones.

[@trexeyesonly55]

@@bmwblog not pros and cons bro, totally broken offer. Check Toyota Mirai owners sue Toyota news

[@Bimmer_Bill]

This is the type of response that people said about EV’s 20 years ago. They make no sense. Well, technology advances and hydrogen may be a solution vs depleting the earth of precious metals

[@CheddarKungPao]

@@Bimmer_Bill Hydrogen cars need *more* and even rarer metals than EVs. Plus everything needed to create Hydrogen infrastructure builds in a lot of inherent inefficiencies vs electric that just cannot be overcome (compressing and physically transporting hydrogen will always waste a lot more energy than transferring it over high voltage cables.)

[@Bimmer_Bill]

@@CheddarKungPao lmfao no and technology marches on. you’re shortsighted like the man who said nothing could beat the horse and buggy more than one hundred years ago.

[@Aizman87]

If it has an electric engine then no it is not the future. The engine is the best part in a car. Dont provide an engine and you hav a soulless dead skeleton Of a vehicle..

[@harmony3138]

Electric cars are more fun to drive.

[@Aizman87]

@@harmony3138 thats the least true claim i have ever heard. Nobody can hear u arrive, nobody can hear you anywhere, you cant drift, you cant do ANYTHING fun with an EV. Literally anything that is fun with a car, you cannot do with an EV..no pops and bangs, no turbo whiste, no turbo dump sound, u cant leavt in a cloud of smoke either. Whats the point then.. its only good fro grocery shopping nearby thats it.

[@hanspeter24]

you drive a car to be seen and heard by others? you are a true goofy 🤡