Something truly amazing comes from Turkey: some students from Sakarya University just released a prototype of what seems to be a car… but a car that consumes no more than a liter of hydrogen in a range of 568km (355 miles)!
Their new hydrogen car, called SAHIMO, weighs 110kg and was voted as the third-most fuel-efficient vehicle in the 26th Shell Eco Marathon contest last year. The student team behind the project is now looking at how to almost double the distance on the same 1 liter of hydrogen: 1000km.
SAHIMO’s prototype wasn’t cheap to build: it costed about $170,000, but I think a production version would be much cheaper. If they made it for two persons, it was great, even if it consumed 2 liters per 568km! Wow.
#1 by Bill on June 1, 2011 - 7:34 pm
This is what I hate about the whole H2 project they won’t give proper info, a litre of hydrogen means nothing when we don’t know how it is compressed. The whole thing seems to me to be all smoke and mirrors and lacking anything that graded as useful information to anyone interested in future car technology.
#2 by christmas present on August 25, 2011 - 10:34 am
They used to be a series on cable that showed the finals of the eco-Marathon, doesn’t seem to be on any more. But I still like to check out online. Was looking at the Asian results and a Thai university produced a car that can travel 2213 km on a litre of ethanol. I have my doubts that any of this will ever go into production when estimates show there is around 4 trillion barrels of unconventional oil sitting in the oil sands and shale of North America.