YES!! says Rotarynews.com (http://rotarynews.com/view.php?id=211) check out the article for the Rumour update.

Un, the rotary news story was titled "Rumors from Tokyo" with the emphasis on rumors. Nothing has been confirmed.
EDIT: Shame on me for not reading the whole story. My appologies Zoom.

that's why you should read the article and not just the headline:

Hydrogen Powered RX-8 This will be there. In a talk earlier this summer, Lewis Booth told the press there would be a dual Gas/H2 powered rotary at this years Tokyo Autoshow.

it was also talked about in this drive.com (http://www.drive.com.au/news/article.asp?article=http://drive.fairfax.com.au/content-new/news/general/2003/09/18/FFXVJ8GOPKD.html) article

awesome

what are the advantages of a hydrogen powered car??

I'm not brillian in this area, but doesn't hydrogren burn clean?

Could hydrogen be the way for a catless free breathing wankel?

Imagine we could also get a solar powered hydrogen plant connected to a rainwater tap at home ... to much to ask you say?

Wouldn't the oil companies love this taking off - NOT!!!

Originally posted by XDEEDUBBX
what are the advantages of a hydrogen powered car??

there is a mind-blowing level of literature posted here, mostly because the wankel-type engine is brilliant at burning the stuff in a combustion process (YAY!!).

fuel is safer than gasoline (seriously), and is completely clean, and once there is enough productive force behind the hydrogen economy, will become cheaper than dirt (meaning tuning is a sustainable reality).

go H2!! :cool:

Very, very, interesting. That would shut up all the whiners about rotarys being so inefficient.

Originally posted by Elara
Very, very, interesting. That would shut up all the whiners about rotarys being so inefficient.

yup, they'll all be lining up for RX-3's, RX-7's, RX-8's, and RX sedans, minivans, REPU's... all just to buy cheap, powerful, and NOISY cars (all of which fuel cell cars aren't...) that are zero emission, and mega cheap on fuel :D :cool:

The problem is right now burning coal or oil to produce hydrogen is worse for the air than burning gasoline.

The way I envision it is that there will be huge "hydrogen refineries" in sunny areas of the world where solar cells can produce hydrogen. Yes, I understand that the amount of energy it takes to separate hydrogen from water is more than the energy released when hydrogen is burned, however, there is something valuable in having a power source that is portable. A solar cell by itself will never power a car.

Could there truly be another all out rotary revolution? I had also heard that Mazda attempted to get the hydrogen rotary labeled a zero emission vehicle. The problem was in the miniscule amounts of particulates given off by the oils necessary to lubricate the engine. Does zero have to be zero? Come on, these cars, even with that little oil are gonna clean the air in most places.

Also interesting is that while nearly every other manufacturer is going fuel-cell, Mazda and BMW I believe are the only two who are attempting to use it like gasoline. To me, burning it in an ICE is a much more realistic possibility. Fuel cells are still unbelieveably complex, heavy and expensive. Plus, we are already experts in ICE's why try to become experts in a whole new area?

Mazda and BMW should really partner up on this. They use different engines, but I'm sure they could learn from each other.

a company in amsterdam had a story about them on cnn today. some new tech for making solar cells that produce electricity 20 times cheaper than todays panels. also mentioned that they had developed a fuel cell that was small enough and powerful enough to power a cell phone for 20 days! dont have a link right now but search for STMicroelectronics. it was a reuters story.