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German engineers have built a car that can travel a world record 1,800 miles on less than a gallon of hydrogen fuel.
The so-called Hysun 3000, presented at the recent Fuel Cell Congress in Stuttgart, drove from Berlin to Barcelona on less than three quarters of a gallon of hydrogen.
"We have achieved a world record distance using hydrogen," said Hysun spokesman Joerg Schweigard.
"A fuel cell driven car has never travelled this far on public streets with such low fuel consumption - the equivalent of twelve litres of petrol."
The team of engineers personally took turns driving the car from Berlin to Barcelona, in what they called "realistic driving conditions".
"We wanted to subject the car to the demands of normal driving, with unpredictable weather, temperature and traffic conditions," said Schweigard.
The team hopes that the success of the experimental test drive will draw more attention to fuel cell power as an alternative to petrol.
"If the public supports such projects, it will become easier for politics and industry to create the necessary preconditions for this kind of future technology," he said.
The engineers, most of them employed at Ballard Power Systems in Germany, developed and constructed the Hysun3000 exclusively in their free time over the last two years.
The so-called Hysun 3000, presented at the recent Fuel Cell Congress in Stuttgart, drove from Berlin to Barcelona on less than three quarters of a gallon of hydrogen.
"We have achieved a world record distance using hydrogen," said Hysun spokesman Joerg Schweigard.
"A fuel cell driven car has never travelled this far on public streets with such low fuel consumption - the equivalent of twelve litres of petrol."
The team of engineers personally took turns driving the car from Berlin to Barcelona, in what they called "realistic driving conditions".
"We wanted to subject the car to the demands of normal driving, with unpredictable weather, temperature and traffic conditions," said Schweigard.
The team hopes that the success of the experimental test drive will draw more attention to fuel cell power as an alternative to petrol.
"If the public supports such projects, it will become easier for politics and industry to create the necessary preconditions for this kind of future technology," he said.
The engineers, most of them employed at Ballard Power Systems in Germany, developed and constructed the Hysun3000 exclusively in their free time over the last two years.
