Find out more about RMIT University at www.rmit.edu.au Australia’s first hydrogen powered racing car was made at RMIT University in collaboration with Fachhochschule Ingolstadt, University of Applied Sciences in Germany. http www.rmit.edu.au About the car •Chassis custom-designed tubular steel spaceframe, composite body panels •Suspension: A-arm pushrod, via bell cranks •Wheelbase: 2900mm •Track: 1500mm About the engine •Based on a Rotax motorcycle engine, converted to run on hydrogen •2-cylinder, in-line •4 valves per cylinder •Displacement: 800cc •Power output target: 50kW •Torque target: 60Nm •Dimensions: 500mm (length), 395mm (breadth), 565mm (height) About the hydrogen tank •Made of high-tech carbon fibre, the tank weighs 28.1kg and can hold up to 1.075kg of hydrogen •The hydrogen is stored as a compressed gas, at a pressure of 200 bar (200 times atmospheric pressure) •Dimensions: 386mm (diameter) and 864mm (length) •Volume: 72 litres
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this is just like going from an analog to a didgital watch nothing will evr really surpass the feel and joy you get from the analog
glad it still has sound. Imagine a hydrogen powered V8
We need to put these oil terrorists in jail for buying our politicians and governments and causing all kinds of wars. Until then we live in petroleum driven economies with little or no chance to ever do anything green. We should have been doing this years ago, just look at the skies today, ugh, horrible. I’m proud of you guys.
wow!, i love it, i would love to know how you converted the engine to run on hydrogen, what modifications did you make??, someone plz reply, thanks.
118 plate 240v massive hydrogen generator. First run part2 watch?v=HUxYuztUw5c&feature=relmfu Video Proof of Concept watch?v=Vko8pfnX_w0&feature=player_embedded
This will be great if it will be developed for future use…very minimal use of fossil fuel mainly for lubrication purposes. Keep it up.
Hydrogen and battery hybrid. Cheap energy for around town, hydrogen for the nullarbor…
@DanFrederikson you can get hydrogen from water and you can store a some metals like lithium and palladium. Hydrogen will be a lot more efficient than anything that’s on the market because of how much energy it releases and the zero emissions.
hydrogen has no future because of storage difficulty and overall crippling efficiency. it’s about 3x worse than battery drive. it will never be.
Its still better than using hydrogen/AC motor hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell because fuel cells are too expensive and will NEVER be practical inho and why have two power sources when 1 is good?
I bet I got bored before you did!
Excellent job mates. I would have liked to see it move under its own power rather than having people push it.
Its NOT 0 emission…u still burn a small amount of oil in the lubrication process…internal combustion will always need oil for lubrication….so your still fossil fuels for this…..but it a good start.
Lol and they used an ICE?
ha ha ha, try to build 200mph electric car that will run for about 10 min and refuel in 1 min. Ain’t gonna happen pal! Wanna go superfast you have to go either oil, alcohol or hydrogen, and choose which one is the greenest. And it isn’t energy wasting. The whole tech just needs to be refined. Oh, and H2 cars are safer than either electric (possible batery fire) or gasoline (highly explosive).
Radical !!!
Very very nice.
we need more hydrogen engines.
Needs nuclear fission/fusion to generate large enough quantities of H2 cleanly. Low density is a problem and may require cryogenics. Good idea though, given its high specific energy.
basically the only way hydrogen is better is because it does not produce any C02, just water, one of the problems of hydrocarbons was that they produce water, We’re just turning the land into water people!
Was really cool to watch them build this car. When this was made RMIT were building 3 race cars:
SAE Petrol – Red one u see in videos
SAE EV car – Green one u see in videos
And the Hydrogen race car – this video.
If like cars it was some of the best experience u could get being surrounded by the 3 power sources.
Good luck with running the car!
How is a huge toxic lithium ion battery more environmentally friendly than a simple hydrogen tank? Hydrogen really is 0 emmisions as well, unless you consider water to be pollution. How do you make hydrogen? Electrolosis. Take water and seperate the H from the O with electricity. Your system takes electrons and puts them into a big toxic battery. Hydrogen is stored in a harmless metal tank. Infrastructure exists as gas tanks. Just convert them to use hydrogen. Bingo.
The all electric Tesla Roadster does 0-60mph in 3.9 seconds, it’s
available now, not in 20 years like this prototype and it really does have
zero emissions, unlike this energy wasting H bomb!
The amount of money it would take to build the infrastructure for H gas is
obscene when you consider we already have the infrastructure for the
electric car in place now!
Serious about safer, greener, faster transport?
Forget hydrogen & think Electric!
Don’t kid yourselves that this project has anything to do with renewable energy guys.
Hydrogen is NOT a viable renewable even if electrolysis is done with solar, wind etc. it is still way less efficient than all-electric cars like the Tesla Roadster because you need to collect energy to make H then you need more E to compress & freeze H to liquid and already you are way behind in the efficiency stakes.
Cost & safety of H infrastructure is enormous.
H cells use costly consumable resources.
cool car im also an automotive student and i believe in hydrogen as having much potential. wouldn’t it be cool if there was a national hydrogen power car race competition ! i would so pitch it to my school— lets make history people