TIME TO PUT THE KETTLE ON

Eco Hyundai bosses can relax and have a cuppa.. knowing water is only by-product of new Nexo

- Maggie Barry

There is a story that, having got to your destination in the Hyundai Nexo, you can use the tail pipe emissions to make a cup of tea.

I am, not surprisingly, sceptical about this tale, created doubtless by someone with too much time on their hands. However, my own efforts to check out the watery emissions from the Nexo proved in vain since it had been raining that day and there was water everywhere.

The reason for the interest in the tailpipe emissions of the Nexo is because this is a car powered by hydrogen fuel cells, which emit only water as a by-product.

It is one of only two hydrogen fuel cell models on sale in the UK and what buyers – though the only places in Scotland where you can fuel up are Aberdeen and Wallyford, East Lothian.