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July 1st 2008

Jason Bateman Arrives At Hancock Premiere In BMW Hydrogen 7

Filed under: cars-houses, transport — michael @ 5:10 pm

This past March, actor Jason Bateman joined Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kristen Davis, Kelsey Grammer, Ed Norton, Jay Leno and Cameron Diaz in testing out the new BMW Hydrogen 7.

Last night, Bateman arrived at the premiere of the new superhero flick, Hancock, with his new green wheels. In the flick, Jason helps Will Smith’s superhero character repair his image and become a more ‘valued’ member of society. Look for it this weekend.

More details on the car here, courtesy of Jay Leno.

March 16th 2008

Jason Bateman Jumps Into A New BMW Hydrogen 7

Filed under: cars-houses — michael @ 6:44 pm

Joining a slew of other celebrities like Edward Norton, Jay Leno, and Will Ferrell, actor Jason Bateman picked up the keys to a new BMW Hydrogen 7 this week. The Arrested Development star — most recently seen in the Oscar-nominated film Juno — was jazzed to among a handful of people giving the H7 a test run for a few months in the real world. From the release,

“Driving in the H7 is like being in a time machine - a full size luxury time machine… with power windows,” said Bateman. “And in the future people are smart; they pump water instead of gas! Hopefully someday soon I’ll be able to buy one of these beautiful cars so I can get back to the future.”

What? I thought only DeLoreans could do that…

Most recently, I stumbled upon a written review by Jay Leno of the Hydrogen 7 for the UK Times Online. Here’s a nice highlight:

” For the past few days I have been driving BMW’s latest 7-series hydrogen car. There is some terrific technology there. It makes plenty of power for its size; the only thing that has limited it is the choice of fuel. This is a flex-fuel vehicle. It runs on either hydrogen or petrol. If you run out of hydrogen you press a button and it goes to petrol. I’ve been running it on hydrogen just to see what it’s like. It stores the hydrogen at -253C. It’s kept extremely cold so that it becomes a liquid. The trick of course is keeping it cold. I’m told that the tanks are so well insulated that if you poured a cup of hot coffee into them in July, come November it would still be too hot to drink.”

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