Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell: car review | Martin Love

It runs on hydrogen and emits nothing but a dribble of water. Could Hyundai's ix35 Fuel Cell be the car of the future?

Price: 53,105
Top speed: 99mph
Power: 134bhp
0-62mph: 12.5 seconds
Fuel economy: 0.95kg of hydrogen per 369 miles (equivalent to about 60mpg)

Hydrogen-powered cars are like buses. You wait years and years and then two come along at once: Hyundai's ix35 Fuel Cell and Toyota's Mirai. Both are seriously expensive, will be built in tiny numbers and face almost unimaginable infrastructure difficulties. Simply refuelling will be their biggest hurdle as currently there are only a dozen hydrogen stations in the world - though three of them are here in Britain. Yet these two cars could well be the future of motoring.