Absolute record
Is hydrogen the future? Opinions are still quite divided on this. The clever minds of the Eco-Runner Team of Delft University of Technology prove that you can wring many kilometers out of one kilo of hydrogen. They came almost 2,500 kilometers away on less than one kilogram of hydrogen.
The Toyota Mirai is perhaps the car you think of when you think of hydrogen. The electrically powered Toyota with fuel cell can carry up to 5.6 kilos of hydrogen and squeezes from one kilo of hydrogen up to about 127 kilometers. With its extremely aerodynamically designed and lightweight Eco-Runner XIII, the TU Delft Eco-Runner Team has broken a special record.
At the Immendingen circuit in Germany, the Eco-Runner Team drove around for three days with the aim of driving more than 2,056 kilometers on one kilo of hydrogen. What seems? The bollebozen have amply succeeded in this. On Sunday, June 25, the counter had already reached 2,056 kilometers at 9 p.m., but the Eco-Runner XIII still had enough energy to continue. The result? A distance of 2,488.5 kilometers, squeezed from 950 grams of hydrogen. This has set an absolute record and that earns the team a place in the great Guinness World Records book. Tribute!
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