February 23, 2016
YOUR NEXT CAR WILL BE A VOLT:
No gears, no gasoline, no problem: check out this hydrogen-powered car (Belinda Smith, 2/23/16, cOSMOS)
With a carbon fibre and aluminium outer shell weighing less than 40 kilograms, keeping the weight of the whole car around 500 kilograms, the Riversimple Rasa is incredibly fuel-efficient, able to traverse 500 kilometres on just 1.5 kilograms of hydrogen.It can go from zero to 100 kilometres an hour - top speed - in around 10 seconds, thanks to an 8.5 kilowatt fuel cell stack adapted from those usually found in forklifts which powers in-wheel electric motors. The same motors double as brakes.And its only byproduct? Water.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 23, 2016 5:43 PM