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Friday, 03/04/2016 9:54:57 AM

Friday, March 04, 2016 9:54:57 AM

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Riversimple's hydrogen fuel cell Rasa gives car design a clean slate

The car is very light – the engineering prototype weighs 580 kg. It embodies various key features:
Four electric motors, one in each wheel
Motors as brakes – recovering over 50% of kinetic energy when braking
Super-capacitors to store this energy and provide most of the power for acceleration
A low powered hydrogen fuel cell ( 8.5 kW)
A body made of lightweight composites



When the car brakes, the kinetic energy, that is normally lost in the form of heat, is captured as electricity. As the car slows, this electricity floods into a bank of super-capacitors at the front of the car. Unlike a battery, these super-capacitors can take a huge charge very quickly, but they don’t store a lot of energy. The energy they take in is sent back to the motors again and provides the energy to accelerate.



http://revolution-green.com/rasa-a-hydrogen-powered-city-car/
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-riversimple-hydrogen-fuel-cell-rasa.html
http://cleantechnica.com/2016/02/17/new-hydrogen-fuel-cell-ev-floats-like-a-butterfly-in-wales/

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