MOTOR EXPERT celeb Jodie Kidd has said it’s her “dream” to see cars powered by hydrogen in the future.
The racing driver, TV personality and model predicted huge leaps being made in the years to come after helping to launch the Kia EV9 family whip last year.
Speaking on the Fueling Around podcast, the motor expert said that her thoughts on the future of driving are quite “controversial” but alternative types of fuel could be a better option for future generations.
On the podcast, she said: “I think hydrogen will be the way forward, I really do.
“I think that it will come to a point where we’ll be able to keep our cars and there will be some sort of brilliant genius that’s going to come up and put an adapter into the hydrogen and into the engine.
“This is my dream and it will happen, someone has to do it.
“Also there’s so many bad stories, and knowledge that people now know about lithium (batteries) not being much more environmentally friendly than just having a car that might be hybrid.”
A hydrogen powered car is not a new concept as HGVs, buses and cars have already been seen on the road and there are plans to create more hydrogen refuelling stations in the near future.
Inside the car it works by swapping a battery pack for a hydrogen tank and fuel cell – which only takes a few minutes to fill – and water is the only waste emission.
The celeb went on to say that the electric vehicle market might struggle due to its infrastructure, despite being an advocate for the climate-friendly motors.
She said: “You spend literally hours a day either going off from where you’re supposed to be going because you’ve got to go miles away to find a point.
“And then you spend god knows how long because you’ve got some kind of dribble of electricity happening in this gas station.”
But the electric motor advocate is doing all she can to keep up with Brits that have made the switch to electric, after installing chargers outside her pub, The Half Moon, in Kirdford, West Sussex.
As it stands the UK has 55,301 charging stations dotted across the nation, but experts predict that figure to hit 100,000 by next year.
And electric car firms are said to be dropping prices as the new zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate comes into play.
The new law requires all motor companies in the UK to see 22 per cent’s worth of sales spent on all-electric vehicles this year.
Firms will be slapped with fines of up to £15,000 per car parked on the desk of any CEO who fails meet the target.
This comes after BMW exec, Oliver Zipse said that hydrogen is the “missing piece” in the jigsaw when trying to achieve emission-free mobility.
The German company sold an impressive 250,000 electric motors last year, and they seemingly have no plans of slowing down.
And, Hyundai announced that they will be discontinuing millions of their motors to focus on becoming an all-electric brand by 2030.
