The H40 is intended for regular transit bus use, while the H50 is for articulated and suburban coaches, similar in size and application to the B400 and B500 Bus Series transmissions, respectively. If you didn’t have the signage on the car, you wouldn’t know it was a hydrogen car except, “it is a tad quieter, because the hydrogen combustion process is not a noisy as gasoline.” And I’m told that the exhuast smells “clean.” While talking with Harold and the other eVermonters, I discovered that I had the wrong idea of what eVermont was. What is different is that it is quieter, smoother, and has excellent acceleration.” We went for a ride. After Lawrence turned the key, the dark dashboard display panel lit up with “Fuel Cell Powered”, a couple of logos, “System Check” with a bar graph showing progress, and then the dashboard lit up with the usual dials. That was the 10-second start-up. “It may have been even less than 10 seconds since it has recently been driven.” Backing out of the parking spot, the FCX showed its EVishness by making no perceptible noise. “The graph on the left, the blue bars, shows the electricity being produced by the fuel cell.
The only thing that comes out of the tail pipe is heat and water vapor. Nothing different up front, inside, or in the back” except for the pressure tank “but the car has no carbon emissions, and the energy comes from the wind. It has a specific energy of 120 W· This is a great show for DIY energy nuts (and non-nuts). The yellow bars show the electricity coming from the ultra-capacitor (which takes the place of a battery pack). Representative Jim Jordan, held hearings on January 25, 2012, to probe into why the NHTSA initiated a formal investigation only five months after the first post-crash battery fire occurred in June. In 2012, Toyota began conducting research into automotive applications. At the same time, Volkswagen began partnering with small technology companies specializing in the technology. To date, five companies have received $8.4 billion in loans, primarily for work on hybrid and electric vehicles: Fisker, Ford, Nissan, Tesla, and the Vehicle Production Group. To perfect this technology they have to bring down the cost, and create the hydrogen infrastructure. It is not necessary to think about the storage, because we don’t have a technology for photovoltaics for example that could be scaled up to our needs.
We have two in the New York state fleet, that we lease from Honda. All the others are leased by government entities.” As you might expect, the car itself collects constant data, which Honda collects periodically. “They were wondering who was driving the car at 85! Vehicle Name Kineticar III Vehicle Number 18 Category HYBRID AND ALTERNATIVE FUELED VEHICLES (H&AFV) Vehicle type category Hybrid electric Team Name Kineticar No People in Project 14 Time to Build 3 months Who Built club part of school curriculum? Although a PHEV’s battery pack is smaller than that of all-electric vehicles of the same weight, as it must accommodate its combustion engine and hybrid drivetrain, it provides the added flexibility of reverting to the use of its gasoline/diesel engine, akin to a conventional HEV if the Battery Prius charge is depleted. Full-electric vehicles (EVs) require no gasoline and completely run off of a battery pack.
It has this gasoline pump symbol on the gauge, but my pump station doesn’t look like that.” As we drove, there were times when the energy use bars all showed zero; we were just coasting. But when he punched the accelerator pedal, the car demonstrated strong, smooth acceleration. The sound of acceleration is a quiet, smoothly rising pitch, without the jumps associated with gear changing because there is none. The electric motor connects to the front wheels without a transmission. What has been the user reaction to the FCX? “I’ve not spoken to anyone who disliked driving this vehicle. At early 2007 gasoline and electricity prices, the break-even point is reached after six to ten years of operation. Also to optimise the cost of power, generation can be from the cheaper solar PV plant (33% generation) during the day light whereas the rest of the time in a day is from the solar thermal storage plant (67% generation from Solar power tower and parabolic trough types) for meeting 24 hours base load operation. The output ring gear can be grounded to the casing by a band clutch B1 and the electric motor can be held stationary by a band clutch B2.