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Nice idea, but given the slow uptake of other open sourced technologies, will it be a success? Will people be able to use their existing alpine car fresheners? Will the knobbly beads fit on the drivers chair?

"The linux of the car world" I thought exactly the same when I read it

Very linux, I REALLY want a hydrogen car but not from a one off company. It shouldn't be that way I would love to support a local company but they could easily go under and I would be stuffed.

I don't know, Twitter is open source and that seems to be doing ok for itself. If the public embrace a particular hydrogen car "distro", then there is always hope.

So, how is this different from any kit car previously offered?

Well it's less ugly than other cars of that size/type.

You can't buy them, only lease them.

If they went bust, in all likelihood another company would take over the contract. If no rescue was forthcoming, you'd either end up with a car for free or it would be repossessed by the liquidators. Either way, you lose nothing.

Damned ugly looking thing though, and I doubt if it passes the compulsory safety crash tests. Modern cars are so heavy in part because of the impact protection.