Switzerland: QUANTiNO sports supercar runs on SALTWATER
The QUANTITY is essentially an electric car driven by four motors, one at each wheel, but instead of a battery that is used and must be recharged for four to 12 hours, the rechargeable QUANTITY utilizes two tanks that is in substance, salt water.
It won t be as simple as water pumping Halifax Harbor, but eSportlimousine QUANTITY is a sports car that really runs on salt water.
The QUANTITY is essentially an electric car driven by four motors, one at each wheel, but instead of a battery that is used and must be recharged for four to 12 hours, the rechargeable QUANTITY utilizes two tanks that is in substance, salt water.
To understand the power the supercar technology nanoFLOWCELL nearly 800 horses, we must begin with a discount based on the level of the fuel cell technology.
Basically, a fuel cell is a battery, but instead of storing energy in a lead acid or an electrolyte solution gelled, a fuel cell is constantly switching the power source through itself.
In the cell the most common fuel, hydrogen passes through one side of a fuel cell and oxygen passes through the other.
The hydrogen is removed and electron flows in the electrical circuit to provide an accompanying power.
When the electron returns to the fuel cell via the feedback circuit, and the binding of protons with oxygen to create water.
The nanoFLOWCELL uses the same idea, but instead of hydrogen, which is expensive to build, difficult to transport and dangerous to store one side of the flow cell takes a mixture of water and metal salts while the other takes a very low salt mixture.
As the hydrogen fuel cell, power is removed from the dirty side with a membrane, used by the charging engine, electrical circuits and returned to the lean side to a salt.
Promises AS zero emissions, 600 km range, the spent fuel that can be diluted and safely disposed of in common waste water treatment plants and wastewater inert fuel source, non-explosive.
The heart of the system was actually developed in 1976 by NASA for use in the space program These patents have expired, and nanaFLOWCELL AG, a Swiss company, has translated the idea into use in automobiles they received the final authorization for testing QUANTITY on public roads in Europe at the end of July 2014.
The AS uses two tanks of 200 liters, containing rich fluid and a salt containing salt-poor fluid, the energy transfer principle is similar to the way the wind with the wind, air flows from a high pressure zone to a low pressure zone.
With the quantity, energy flow from a highly ionized solution rich liquid to a less ionized salt solution, hence the need for two reservoirs Pumps are used to recycle each fluid until ions are spent.
The energy produced by the flow cell is temporarily stored in a pair of super-capacitors before it is distributed to four electric motors, one at each combined peak power of the output wheel is 580 kilowatts, 778 horses.
The idea of using the flow cell technology for cars is not limited to nanoFLOWCELL AG, General Electric is also working on a system.
A study by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany expects energy costs to the flow cell in the neighborhood of 12 cents per kilowatt hour with service stations.
By comparison, your electricity costs in Nova Scotia working out to about 20 cents per kilowatt hour The company plans to use 20 kWh per 100 km, or about 2 40 100 km Although a gasoline car reaches 9 liters 100 km, the art about 12 60 100 1 40 km per liter.
Interestingly, the Nissan Leaf also uses about 20 kWh per 100 km to 20 cents per kWh, which is equivalent to about 4 100 km.
The powertrain technology costs aside, the prototype of QUANTITY is equally interesting what extent it could survive in production, if the car is commercially produced everything, remains to be seen.
There is no B-pillars and only two doors, wing-style doors gull cover both the positions of the front and rear seats a table inside edge flowing like no car on the road today while the dashboard resembles a large display screen, which shows the fuel status and other parameters of the car and the speedometer and other indicators.
What looks like a finished wood veneer on the flow console surfaces is in fact a surface containing capacitive touch controls.
When off, surfaces like wood, but when on, the illuminated reflected orders.
Wood surfaces are so thin that light touch of the finger on the sensorFLOW icons triggers the appropriate action, welcomes development manager Nunzio La Vecchia in a press release.
This innovation allows us to use a durable material like wood to give you a direct connection to digital control systems.
Because of the volume of the fuel tanks, the car is 5 to 25 meters 17 feet, 4 2-3 inches long, about half a foot over a Toyota Sienna minivan.
La Vecchia said fluid design is meant to symbolize the electrolyte flow through the flow cell.
Theoretically, gas stations could not be more complex than gas stations today, but without the risk of explosion.
Like any new technology, there is a scenario of the chicken and the egg which makes them difficult passage companies won t invest in service stations if no such cars to drive and nobody will buy these cars without places to fill them.
But the number of hydrogen filling stations increases slowly as the fleet of hydrogen cars on the road so it is not hopeless.
A car that runs on Sea The Chronicle Herald, sea water, the motors at each wheel, each wheel instead.