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

[Carey King]

I'm actually not sure if they just drive it around the JJ Pickle Campus 
or not.  I didn't hear nor ask of any specific safety aspects of the bus.
carey

Ellison, Tom F. wrote:
> 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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