Australia's First Hydrogen Powered Racing Car - RMIT University

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Australia's first hydrogen powered racing car was made at RMIT University in collaboration with Fachhochschule Ingolstadt, University of Applied Sciences in Germany.

http://www.formulahydrogen.com/
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About the car
•Chassis: custom-designed tubular steel spaceframe, composite body panels
•Suspension: A-arm pushrod, via bell cranks
•Wheelbase: 2900mm
•Track: 1500mm

About the engine
•Based on a Rotax motorcycle engine, converted to run on hydrogen
•2-cylinder, in-line
•4 valves per cylinder
•Displacement: 800cc
•Power output target: 50kW
•Torque target: 60Nm
•Dimensions: 500mm (length), 395mm (breadth), 565mm (height)

About the hydrogen tank
•Made of high-tech carbon fibre, the tank weighs 28.1kg and can hold up to 1.075kg of hydrogen
•The hydrogen is stored as a compressed gas, at a pressure of 200 bar (200 times atmospheric pressure)
•Dimensions: 386mm (diameter) and 864mm (length)
•Volume: 72 litres

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• RMIT
• Melbourne
• Hydrogen
• Racing
• Car
• auto
• H2O
• ecological
• Germany
• Australia
• Grand
• Prix

[rmitmedia]

Thanks for your opinions, it's great there is discussion about this renewable source. We've forwarded your comments to the engineers on this project.

[jimbolightningy]

this is just like going from an analog to a didgital watch nothing will evr really surpass the feel and joy you get from the analog

[wazfrmoz]

glad it still has sound. Imagine a hydrogen powered V8

[MightyZarkon]

We need to put these oil terrorists in jail for buying our politicians and governments and causing all kinds of wars. Until then we live in petroleum driven economies with little or no chance to ever do anything green. We should have been doing this years ago, just look at the skies today, ugh, horrible. I'm proud of you guys.

[cam1996reeves]

wow!, i love it, i would love to know how you converted the engine to run on hydrogen, what modifications did you make??, someone plz reply, thanks.

[slonerider777]

118 plate 240v massive hydrogen generator. First run part2 watch?v=HUxYuztUw5c&feature=re­lmfu Video Proof of Concept watch?v=Vko8pfnX_w0&feature=pl­ayer_embedded

[CeeCeeable]

This will be great if it will be developed for future use...very minimal use of fossil fuel mainly for lubrication purposes. Keep it up.

[Pemberdeer]

Hydrogen and battery hybrid. Cheap energy for around town, hydrogen for the nullarbor...

[spidey1242]

@DanFrederikson you can get hydrogen from water and you can store a some metals like lithium and palladium. Hydrogen will be a lot more efficient than anything that's on the market because of how much energy it releases and the zero emissions.

[DanFrederiksen]

hydrogen has no future because of storage difficulty and overall crippling efficiency. it's about 3x worse than battery drive. it will never be.

[jambwoy876]

@bbglas007 Its still better than using hydrogen/AC motor hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell because fuel cells are too expensive and will NEVER be practical inho and why have two power sources when 1 is good?