DTU, The Technical University of Denmark, together with four students have applied for a patent on a new type of hydrogen car which exploits hydrogen much better, writes DTU in a press release.

The new system for the combustion of hydrogen was actually started last year when the four students set a world record by driving 25 kilometres on 10 gram of hydrogen. This is corresponding to a normal car driving 671 kilometres on one litre of gasoline.

“We have eliminated the loss of hydrogen in a combustion cell and this makes the system more efficient,” says Lasse Clausen who is one of the four inventors behind the patent.

DTU has been responsible for the patent application itself, but it is the first time that the university is to take out a patent for an invention made exclusively by students, relates DTU.

“The university has decided to support the patent application because the fuel system will be of significant commercial interest for both manufacturers of cars and fuel cells and consequently it will be interesting from both an economical and a social point of view,” says special consultant Søren Michael Hansen from the department of research and innovation at DTU.