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Hydrogen-powered hybrid scooter

by indymb | July 28, 2006
"A special course and various permits are required to build a hydrogen-powered engine. It wasn't possible to achieve this during the time period of my graduation project. The faculty is now trying to assemble all the necessary means to fully develop the hydrogen-powered scooter."
- Crijn Bouman, design student

Delft, The Netherlands - An industrial design student in The Netherlands has built a prototype scooter that is designed to be run on hydrogen.

The scooter has an electric motor powered by a (Li-)ion battery. If the Fhybrid is ever put into production, the idea is to charge the battery with a fuel-cell system, which would derive its energy from a tank of hydrogen.

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