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Post by Vizier of Oz on Jul 13, 2009 5:35:48 GMT -5
Turkish Students Create Hydrogen-Powered 1300-MPG Car By Adrian Covert Posted 07.07.2009 at 5:02 pm 0 Comments SAHIMO Hydrogen Car Inhabitat 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 SAHÝMO. Sahimo and first Turkish built car, DevrimThe SAHÝMO 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. www.popsci.com/cars/article/2009-07/turkish-students-create-hydrogen-powered-car-gets-1300-mpg
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Post by Rhezus on Jul 13, 2009 10:23:47 GMT -5
Such cars could be "the stuff" in nearest furure. The Japanese already export them to California and probably soon to Eu.
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Post by Vizier of Oz on Jul 14, 2009 12:39:13 GMT -5
Such cars could be "the stuff" in nearest furure. The Japanese already export them to California and probably soon to Eu. Hello Rhezus, You are right. Japanese are quite good at alternative transportation technologies, but I suppose we are catching up.
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