Riversimple Urban Cars are ready to Rock on the Roads!
Nowadays, many cars claimed to reduce the carbon offset and being environmental friendly to the Mother Nature.
It seemed that the Riversimple Urban Car, or also known as ‘RUC’ is joining the lead as well. For your information, the RUC is fully-powered by fuel cell that combines hydrogen with oxygen from the air to release energy. As a result, it emits nothing more toxic gases than H2O (water).
By using hydrogen to power cars, it helps to cut down the urban pollution and carbon emissions. However, the makers are having difficulties to build the hydrogen cars’ fuel cells, which contain expensive platinum and the hydrogen they use is hard to store in very large quantities!
They have to overcome the above matters first, if they want to create the hydrogen cars. The developers said that they have figure out the way to solve up the problems, but it might takes time to do it.
If you refer to the above figure, you can see that RUC is having the same size of a Smart car, and weighs about 350 kilograms. However, it’s a little bit different from the Smart car, which uses a relatively cheap six kilowatt fuel cell. The RUC can reach up to 50 mph (80 km/h). In addition, the acceleration time from 0 to 30 mph for RUC is only 5.5 seconds (Not bad for a Hydrogen car, isn’t it?)[newscientist]







