[ausev] UT CEM Plug-In Hybrid Fuel Cell Bus

[Ellison, Tom F.]

Is there anything more to say about the safety aspects of the vehicle
other than "hydrogen is a safe fuel" mentioned in the article?  Is it on
the public roads?
Thanks Tom

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From: ausev-bounces at austinev.org [mailto:ausev-bounces at austinev.org] On
Behalf Of Carey King
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:33 PM
To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion
Subject: [ausev] UT CEM Plug-In Hybrid Fuel Cell Bus

I just checked this bus out today.

http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/2007/11/electromechanics05.php  

All of the local news stations (as this was a Press Release day) enjoyed

filming the water come from the tailpipe.  Note they get the hydrogen 
from an on-site natural gas reformer.

The general specs are:
19.3 kW fuel cell
60 kWh NiCd battery pack from SAFT (French) that is about 4K lbs and 
they don't discharge below 20% energy capacity
nominal voltage is 300 V (as low as 240 V when discharged and as high as

380 when regenerating)
Driving range about 200 miles total
The engineer/technical guy there said it gets about 1 mile/kWh, and 
about 0.8 kWh/mile if they drive carefully


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