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"A gas supplier company in the Netherlands has effectively doubled the range of the Tesla Model S by adding hydrogen power to the electric luxury sedan. Dubbed the "Hesla," the modification adds a second charging supply to the existing electrical system, using a tank of hydrogen as an alternative fuel source.
Last week, the Holthausen Group announced that it had begun testing the prototype vehicle. With a fully charged battery and a tank of hydrogen, the Helsa can travel close to 620 miles — nearly twice the range of the stock Model S P100D." http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/11/13/meet-hesla-modded-tesla-model-s-that-runs-on-hydrogen-fuel.html
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @08:42AM (4 children)
only if you discover an exotic way to not spend in the process the same amount of energy that you could use to move the car...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:17AM
Electrolysis on-the-run is indeed stupid. As a source of hydrogen to 'fill a tank'**, it's Ok.
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** Assuming a tank of hydrogen reaches a decent level of specific energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:08PM (1 child)
I asume jimshatt meant: electrolysis *at home in the garage*.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:51PM
I saw a Discovery channel program once where a retired engineer did that. He had an array of solar panels that drove the electrolysis, and tanks in his yard to store the hydrogen. He ran his car on it and occasionally through a fuel cell in his house as a backup in case the solar panels weren't meeting his needs (like in the winter) at any moment in time.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday November 16 2017, @03:53PM
Actually, *more* energy than you would use to move the car - the laws of thermodynamics demand efficiency losses at every stage.
On the other hand there are *already* a number of not-so-exotic hydrogen-producing techniques out there - from bioreactors to solar-electrolysis catalyst panels.
And more importantly this "stunt" demonstrates the fact that EVs are relatively easy to modify to run off alternative fuels - the charging system doesn't care whether the electricity is generated from hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, wood-gas, or cold-fusion reactor.