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| Ballard
Power Engineers want to travel across Europe-over 3,000 kilometers on one
tank of Hydrogen fuel
Publication date: 29-December-2003 |
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| To Travel 3,000 km while using only 2kg of Hydrogen.
This is the goal that a group of engineers from the Ballard
Power Systems facility at Nabern near Kirchheim, Germany want to achieve.
On their way to achieving this world record and trying to get themselves
into the Guiness Book of Records as the most fuel-efficient long-distance
trip, they also hope to stimulate public interest in fuel cell technology.
The route will take them from the south of Spain over France to Belgium and Germany; Last stop: Berlin. The Hysun’s basic design is that of a fully enclosed three-wheeled recumbent
bike but without any pedal power. The group designed the Hysun’s aerodynamics
using a wind tunnel .
  Hydrogen storage
is achieved by using two Dynetek
39-liter carbon fiber reinforced aluminum compressed gas bottles with a
pressure of 250 bars.
The tour is scheduled to begin in summer 2004. The trip is scheduled to last 14 days from start to finish, and the organizers expect the actual traveling time to be nine days. The vehicle is expected to travel at an average speed of 40 kilometers per hour, though the Hysun can attain a maximum speed of 100 kmh. To date the group is still seeking additional sponsors for the record-breaking journey and event. Anyone interested in becoming a sponsor please send all corespondance to. Dr. Joerg
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The group calls
their project Hysun 3000 and will use the event to showcase fuel cell technology
and its effectiveness in actual driving conditions.The engineers are all
working on the project in their free time and the complete project is being
built with the support of a number of sponsors, who will be providing most
of the financing and technical equipment for the record attempt. The sponsors
include Ballard, Dynetek, Aerorider, Daimler Chrysler, Schempp-Hirth, Magura,
Continental AG and the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands.
The use of these aerodynamics
has made it possible for the vehicle to achieve a drag coefficient of 0.15,
and when this is added to the very small cross-sectional area of
0,6 m2 . The result has been a very low aerodynamic drag.