Re: Can you construct a fuel cell car?

["David Roden (Akron OH USA)" <roden@ald.net>]

On 31 May 2001, at 16:39, Teoman Naskali wrote:

> I am wondering is it possible for the individual to consturcut a fuelcell
> car with a 30.000 dollar budget?

Here's a fuel cell hybrid project on the web:

     http://www.venturer.rutgers.edu/

Their car did fairly well in a recent (1999) Tour de Sol.  This year they 
planned to run a larger fuel cell vehicle, a converted Ford Taurus I 
think, but Michael Bianci reported that he didn't see it at the event.  
Maybe it wasn't ready in time.

Could you do something similar for $30,000?  Now ~that~ would be a 
challenge.  

The fuel cells the Venturer used are real production models, built by H 
Power (I think) for traffic signs and used quite successfully by the New 
Jersey DOT for that purpose.  At one time someone on this list 
investigated the purchase of one of these fuel cells for an E-bicycle and 
I think got a price.  I don't have time right now to search my archives 
for the post, but you might be able to find it in the yahoo archive.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
1991 Solectria Force 144vac
1991 Ford Escort Green/EV 128vdc
1979 General Engines ElectroPed 24vdc
1974 Honda Civic EV 96vdc
1970 GE Elec-trak E15 36vdc
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