Sentences with phrase «of hydrogen tanks»

Boot space is put at 500 litres — 115 litres less than the e-tron quattro due to the packaging of the hydrogen tanks.

Ariel Schlesinger's Bubble Machine is a kinetic sculpture comprised of a hydrogen tank affixed with a motorized mechanism that forms bubbles.

Not exact matches

EM: Just think about the little fuel tank that has the hydrogen in it, that is 2 millimetre across, about the size of a peppercorn.

The tank containing hydrogen fluoride was not damaged by the explosion or fire and none of the chemical leaked, company officials said.

If the polymers can release that hydrogen on demand — a feat not yet shown — they could lead to plastic gas tanks that carry cars hundreds of kilometers between fill ups.

Rafiee is developing a way to line a hydrogen vehicle's fuel tank with a one - atom - thick layer of graphene, essentially a sheet of single - walled carbon nanotubes that have been opened up and laid flat, so that the tank can better store and release hydrogen.

Results of a national FCEV demonstration found that, although less than the range on a tank of gasoline, the range on a tank of hydrogen has consistently increased, and now thousands of cars are being prepared to hit the market.

Based on extensive forensic testing, its analysis of why the tank of pressurized oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide blew up is thorough, precise, and illuminating.

Nor was there any report that we know of about the hydrogen tank explosion that killed postdoc Meng Xiangjian at Tsinghua University in Beijing in December.

Conventional approaches to compact hydrogen storage — compressing the gas to up to 10,000 pounds per square inch (psi) or cooling it down to cryogenic temperatures so that it liquefies (around 252 degrees Celsius)-- can attain only about half the energy density needed to fit enough fuel inside something the size of a gas tank.

The researchers estimate that a gas - tank - size block of carbon tubes filled with hydrogen could power a typical car for 200 miles.

«We want to be just as confident of the safety of hydrogen in our fuel tanks and on our street corners.»

The drawbacks of conventional storage tanks for gaseous and liquid hydrogen force us to look for other solutions.

View slideshow The test hydrogen fuel cell — powered cars have a range of up to 200 miles (322 kilometers) per tank.

The rocket has two solid - fuel boosters and a main tank that carries 173 tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen.

The liquid hydrogen / oxygen (LH2 / LOX) fuel can be used to fill the tanks of manned vehicles travelling between Earth and Mars.

The faulty ring, made brittle by unusually cold weather at launch, allowed a jet of flame to ignite the hydrogen fuel in the external tank.

In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).

«Above - ground tanks can't even begin to match the amount of hydrogen gas that can be stored underground,» she said.

The shuttle is comprised of three components: the orbiter (the aeroplane - like crew - and cargo - carrying craft that most people think of as the shuttle); a large external tank (ET) that holds the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel; and two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) packed with powdered aluminium and rubber fuel.

«We've got a real fun race going on here between plugging in vehicles and storing electricity in the battery versus pumping hydrogen into a tank and creating electricity from a fuel cell,» says Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development.

It has an operating range of about 250 miles and a 700 - bar hydrogen tank, and its electric motor develops an output of 100 kilowatts with a torque of 290 newton meters.

The fissure, now 50 centimetres long, appeared on 5 November as the tank was being drained of liquid hydrogen after an earlier fuel leak prevented the shuttle from launching.

The hydrogen station includes multiple types of mechanical compressors and storage tanks that can be used to simulate material handling or light - duty vehicle end - uses of hydrogen.

Production of fuel cells, electrolyzers and hydrogen storage tanks with lower cost and higher efficiency will be enabled by the work in Research Area 2 (lead by SINTEF).

A gas flows easily out of a tank, but getting hydrogen out of a molecule requires a catalyst.

Hydrogen is stored in a tank mounted down the centre of the car, with electrical energy transferred to an electric motor at the rear.

Two aluminum lined tanks of different sizes store hydrogen fuel at 10,000 psi, one behind and one under the rear seats.

A full tank of hydrogen provides a total range of around 265 miles.

The Tucson FCV can travel 300 miles (480 km) on a tank of hydrogen, three times as far as most EVs.

Forward of this, under the rear seats, is a smaller hydrogen tank (24 litres), and ahead of this, still under the floor, is a small battery pack.

There are two carbon - fiber fuel tanks to hold 5 kilograms of hydrogen at 10,000 psi, a fuel cell to produce electricity through the processing of hydrogen, a pack of affordable, reliable nickel - metal - hydride batteries to store the electricity, and a 113 - kW (151 - hp) motor to power the front - wheel - drive platform.

Meanwhile, about 8.8 pounds of hydrogen is stored in two carbon fiber tanks that sit at the vehicle's floor (one beneath the rear seats and another in the center).

The platform carries its fuel cell up front, while the carbon - fiber tanks of hydrogen are hidden beneath the floor.

It has a life cycle of 10 years, compared to the five years the Tucson FCEV enjoyed, yet the unspoken plus is unlike a conventional electric vehicle, the hydrogen tanks can be filled in under five minutes — about the same time it takes to gas up a regular vehicle.

It includes a 3 - panel greenhouse, 20 - inch rims, recycled water in tanks on the roof with a hydrogen converter and hydrogen fuel cells, 4 wheel - hub motors, a «Terra - Scan» 360 - degree topography scanner on the roof, side skirts illumination indicating the operating and charge status of the energy packs, a roof rack and additional lamps integrated into the roof.

Hyundai says the fuel cell Tucson will come with a 100 - cell stack, using a lithium - polymer battery, and will have a tank capacity of 12 pounds of hydrogen.

With the F - Cell's hydrogen tanks that store 9.7 pounds of hydrogen this model is able to travel 270 miles of range.

Another notable feature is that it has the ability to recharge in just four minutes, and an impressive driving range of 378 miles from one tank of hydrogen.

The lithium - ion battery is located behind the rear seats and is protected as well as possible against the effects of accidents, as are the four hydrogen tanks.

Three carbon - fiber fuel tanks store up to a maximum of 9.25 pounds (4.2 kg) of gaseous hydrogen at 10,000 psi (70 MPa), and give the Equinox a range of 200 miles (320 km).

It's built on an all - new, purpose - built platform for its hydrogen fuel - cell architecture and it is targeting a range of between 500 and 580 kilometres on a single tank.

The fuel cell Clarity's acceleration was decent given it weighs on the high side of two tons and has armored tanks for 10,000 psi hydrogen both in the trunk and under the rear seat.

And, about digging up, you know that instead of electricity in a battery you have hydrogen in a tank, that's the only diference.

The 11 pounds of hydrogen stored at 10,000 psi in the two bulletproof carbon fiber tanks equates to enough power to keep a home in the US powered for up to a week, Toyota says.

The hydrogen fuel tanks are mounted beneath the cargo floor, with the storage batteries located at the center of the chassis.

[37] The Alfa Romeo MiTo Fuel Cell car uses a Nuvera Fuel Cell stack combined with a compact Li - ion traction battery pack to supply power to the electric motor; vehicle has top speed of 150 km / h (93 mph) and can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers in 10 seconds, with hydrogen consumption of 3.2 liters diesel equivalent / 100 km (74 mpg US) and a range of 450 kilometers (280 miles) in NEDC, thanks to 700 bar H2 tanks.»

In addition, the lithium - ion battery behind the rear seats has the best possible protection against the consequences of an accident, as do the four hydrogen tanks.

Currently only available in certain locals that have hydrogen fueling stations, the Mirai can achieve up to 310 miles per tank of hydrogen and emits nothing but a little H20 from its «exhaust» pipe.

High - pressure hydrogen storage tanks constructed from carbon fiber keep the fuel safe in the event of a collision, while a nickel - metal hydride battery provides the drive storage.