THE TWIN HYDROGEN tanks in BMW’s new iX5 Hydrogen run at 700 bar of pressure but can actually handle more than 2000 bar. So stable and safe are they that one of the tests involved shooting them with a real gun – and there was no explosion, as we found out when we emerged shakily from our hiding place under the table.
WHILE OTHER CAR makers struggle to get the sums to add up for city cars, Hyundai continues to make a success – in both sales and profit terms – of the i10. Indeed, Hyundai Europe chief operating officer Michael Cole says he sees the i10 as the entry point into the Hyundai line-up for “the foreseeable future” and it remains “very much part of the product plan”.