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Pininfarina H2 Speed Racecar to Roll Out Commercially in Limited Numbers

March 13, 2018 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Pininfarina H2 Speed Racecar to Roll Out Commercially in Limited Numbers | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.

  Pininfarina has decided to make it official and bring their hydrogen fuel cell H2 Speed racecar from concept status to commercial status, rolling it out in limited numbers. I’ve talked about Pininfarina before, first in 2008 when they introduced their Sintesi hydrogen fuel cell vehicle prototype and second in 2016, about two years ago • Read More »

Hydrogen Racecars

August 7, 2015 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | No Comments | Filed in: .

Hydrogen Racecars and H2 Races Hydrogen race cars need to be in races in order to showcase to the world the upcoming hydrogen highways and hydrogen raceways of the future. New technology is most often showcased by the most dramatic means possible and running hydrogen race cars on hydrogen raceways is no different. Hydrogen Racecars • Read More »

Radical Hydrogen Racecar Developed by Students

April 9, 2014 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Radical Hydrogen Racecar Developed by Students | Filed in: Uncategorized.

Students at Cranfield University (just north of London, UK) will be converting a new Radical RXC racecar to run on hydrogen fuel. At the end of the project the hydrogen powered prototype will run laps to prove the modifications have worked. According to Cranfield University, “The project has been designed in anticipation of a hydrogen • Read More »

Forze VI Hydrogen Racecar Unveiled

September 10, 2013 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 2 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.

The hydrogen fuel cell racecar that we’ve all be waiting for has finally been unveiled. A team of about 70 students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created the Forze VI, a full-size hydrogen powered racecar that can achieve a top speed of 220 km/h and the only emissions are steam and • Read More »

Forze V First Formula Hydrogen Fuel Cell Racecar Kicks Butt

July 18, 2012 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Forze V First Formula Hydrogen Fuel Cell Racecar Kicks Butt | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.

I’ve written about the Forze fuel cell racecar several times now over the past 4 years. The last time I wrote about the Forze IV fuel cell go-kart it won the Formula Zero competition which was hosted in Hague, The Netherlands. This time I would like to talk about the Forze V which stepped up • Read More »

2010 Formula Zero and Le Mans Hydrogen Racecars a Go-Go

June 3, 2010 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on 2010 Formula Zero and Le Mans Hydrogen Racecars a Go-Go | Filed in: Competition.

The wonderful thing about hydrogen cars is that they can be like any other car. They can be street legal vehicles tooling down the city streets or taking a long road trip on the highways or they can be used as racecars. There are two different hydrogen racecar events that have caught my eye recently. • Read More »

Formula H Hydrogen Racecar Update

December 5, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Formula H Hydrogen Racecar Update | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.

Sixty students over two years have now completed Australia’s first hydrogen racing car. This is an update from a story I talked about a month ago where students from Australia and Germany collaborated on this Formula 1 style vehicle with a re-engineered motorcycle engine. Currently the Formula H racer is powered by hydrogen created by • Read More »

Formula H Hydrogen Racecar Goes for Guinness World Record

November 5, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Formula H Hydrogen Racecar Goes for Guinness World Record | Filed in: Hydrogen Cars.

Australia’s RMIT University and Germany’s Fachhochschule Ingolstadt University have co-developed a “Formula H” racecar that they intend to attempt a Guinness World Record with next year in Germany. The single seat hydrogen vehicle uses a converted motorcycle motor and is expected to reach around 100 mph in the F1 class. The Formula H car will • Read More »

Pininfarina H2 Speed

March 17, 2018 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Pininfarina H2 Speed | Filed in: .

  Pininfarina H2 Speed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Racecar Review Technology sure moves fast. It only feels a few short months ago that we were excitedly told about the potential of the Pininfarina H2 Speed hydrogen fuel cell racecar concept. The aim was to try and make a real-life racing vehicle, though at the time it • Read More »

Logical Progress in Hydrogen Fuel Cell History

April 1, 2017 | By George Wand | Comments Off on Logical Progress in Hydrogen Fuel Cell History | Filed in: History.

“Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.”      Bill Gaede The first ‘Hypercars’ were built during the 1990s. GM and VW followed Amory Lovins’ guidance and undertook to make a car to his principles. The EV 1 was a bold experiment whose time had not yet arrived – lacking the • Read More »