• Turkish Students Create Hydrogen-Powered 1300-MPG Car
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[img]http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/files/articles/sahimo8.jpg[/img] [quote=PopSci.com]In preparation for the inaugural Global Green Challenge across the Australian outback, a team of Turkish students have assembled a hydrogen-powered vehicle that has an efficiency of 568 kilometers per liter (roughly 1,335 mpg). In order to get across the outback, they hope to only use three liters of fuel in the vehicle, dubbed the SAHİMO. The SAHİMO weighs 110 kg--a carbon fiber frame keeps the weight down--and the scary thing is that these Sakarya University students want to up the efficiency to 1,000 km/L. But doing so won't be cheap, as the cost to build the SAHIMO is already at $170,000, and they're looking for sponsors to keep improving the car before the competition in October. The Global Green Challenge is organized by the same organization responsible for the World Solar Challenge, which has produced some of its own notable cars, including the University of Michigan's latest, the Infinium.[/quote] [url]http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2009-07/turkish-students-create-hydrogen-powered-car-gets-1300-mpg[/url] I'm assuming that's without a driver... an average person would raise the weight by 50% or more, which probably puts a significant dent in that figure.
Looks like a Porsche.
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ah college kids doing something that sounds good on paper but generally fails in a realistic practice we salute you.
Interesting, all for sustainability. Not global warming, however.
if their hydrogen engine is efficient and good enough it might be bought by honda for their FFX clarity
Misleading title, should be hydrogen-powered clown car.
[QUOTE=shipkiller;15911013]if their hydrogen engine is efficient and good enough it might be bought by honda for their FFX clarity[/QUOTE] final fantasty 10 clarity? or do you mean FCX
[img]http://www.aliefvac.com/mediac/400_0/media/PowerWheels.jpg[/img] That's exactly what that makes me think of.
What do you drive it with? A remote control? That thing is tiny.
You can see why it gets good gas mileage. it weights less than my fucking...Yeah. you get the picture.
1300-MPG doesn't mean anything when you don't know how much the fuel costs. Also 170,000 is fucking ridiculous for a car. I could buy a Rolls for that much.
I wouldn't buy that car if you paid me to.
Looks like a fucking powerwheels car.
I don't even know how you'd fit in that to drive it...
I'm 6'5. Imagine, just IMAGINE, me trying to get in that thing. Suddenly, 15 mpg.
110 kg? Jesus christ I can squat more than that...
I'd rather have people researching ways to make cost effective hydrogen powered cars rather than impractical ones that just have an insane mpg rate. I understand this is for a competition, but it doesn't do much good to put all this money into something that isn't practical.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;15913214]110 kg? Jesus christ I can squat more than that...[/QUOTE] It's a feature so that if it ever breaks down, you can just carry it to the local mechanic.
[QUOTE=Lankist;15911771]1300-MPG doesn't mean anything when you don't know how much the fuel costs. Also 170,000 is fucking ridiculous for a car. I could buy a Rolls for that much.[/QUOTE] NOW it's $170000. When cars were first made only the richest of the rich could afford them, couldn't they? Now there's hundreds of millions of them on the planet owned by people from almost every possibly conceivable socio-economic background. Experimental vehicles like this are obviously going to cost a hell of a lot of money at first, but in time that figure will drop significantly.
You'd look pimpin' in that shit while cruisin'. How the fuck do you fit in that anyway. [editline]01:48PM[/editline] You'd probably be more comfortable and get infinite MPG on a bike.
This car would be great until someone riding a bicycle runs into you flipping the car and killing you.
[QUOTE=Lankist;15911771]1300-MPG doesn't mean anything when you don't know how much the fuel costs. Also 170,000 is fucking ridiculous for a car. I could buy a Rolls for that much.[/QUOTE] Not a new Rolls, That's for sure.
So if we have a hundred thousand of these things running through the US or Turkey or wherever, where the fuck are we going to find trillions of gallons of hydrogen gas for these things anyway? If you say "space" it's not funny. Like we're going to drag it a billion miles from Jupiter or wherever the hell all the way back here.
[QUOTE=Xystus234;15915291]So if we have a hundred thousand of these things running through the US or Turkey or wherever, where the fuck are we going to find trillions of gallons of hydrogen gas for these things anyway? If you say "space" it's not funny. Like we're going to drag it a billion miles from Jupiter or wherever the hell all the way back here.[/QUOTE] Wow... my face and my palm literally just met for a second there. It's not often someone says something stupid enough to get me to do that. There's something that covers more than 2/3 of the Earth's surface that is itself 2/3 hydrogen (by composition, not mass). Can you guess what it is?
[QUOTE=sltungle;15916304]Wow... my face and my palm literally just met for a second there. It's not often someone says something stupid enough to get me to do that.[/QUOTE] I know, I laughed too. However, what is an issue is where they're going to get the power for the electrolysis. We'd need many more wind turbines for that.
[QUOTE=Sh33p;15916345]I know, I laughed too. However, what is an issue is where they're going to get the power for the electrolysis. We'd need many more wind turbines for that.[/QUOTE] Or nuclear power, or regular fossil fuels until we decide/need to completely replace them.
If it can't be used to blow stuff up it doesn't interest me.
Yeah, which slightly defeats the point of hydrogen cars.
[QUOTE=Sh33p;15916537]Yeah, which slightly defeats the point of hydrogen cars.[/QUOTE] Well we're not exactly gonna convert EVERYTHING to run on hydrogen in one go. You need to start somewhere. So start with cars. Then eventually replace everything else over time.
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