FutureBoy
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So I just saw this new vehicle (yeah, not a real vehicle). If this thing actually gets produced I'll be surprised.
But one thing I noticed on the site was this:
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Structural Pressure Vessels
One of the first challenges we faced in designing the Apricale™ is that to date, hydrogen fuel tanks have been incorporated into hydrogen vehicles as an appendage - i.e. they have been attached to the vehicle chassis, rather then incorporated as an integral component - and due to the extremely high pressures at which hydrogen is stored in gas form (up to 700 bar), even when constructed with carbon fibre, they have a highly unattractive weight efficiency of around 5% - i.e. to store 5 Kgs of hydrogen (sufficient to cover around 300 miles in a family car) results in a total weight for the tank and hydrogen of c.100 Kgs
In motorsport, weight-saving and component efficiency is paramount (meaning every component should be as light as possible and ideally fulfil more than one function), we set about creating a new design for hydrogen tanks, resulting in our first Patent Application, for a lightweight, structural, graphene composite pressure vessel, capable of being used as a structural component of the monocoque chassis of the Apricale™, or any other vehicle, machine, aircraft, ship or structure
We are now working on developing this revolutionary design for production readiness, looking to JV or license the design to store hydrogen and other volatile gases, such as oxygen and nitrogen
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So.... Structural Hydrogen? This is the first I've seen anyone trying to copy Tesla's structural battery pack. In this case, it's a cylindrical tank of hydrogen instead of a cylindrical battery.
But one thing I noticed on the site was this:
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Structural Pressure Vessels
One of the first challenges we faced in designing the Apricale™ is that to date, hydrogen fuel tanks have been incorporated into hydrogen vehicles as an appendage - i.e. they have been attached to the vehicle chassis, rather then incorporated as an integral component - and due to the extremely high pressures at which hydrogen is stored in gas form (up to 700 bar), even when constructed with carbon fibre, they have a highly unattractive weight efficiency of around 5% - i.e. to store 5 Kgs of hydrogen (sufficient to cover around 300 miles in a family car) results in a total weight for the tank and hydrogen of c.100 Kgs
In motorsport, weight-saving and component efficiency is paramount (meaning every component should be as light as possible and ideally fulfil more than one function), we set about creating a new design for hydrogen tanks, resulting in our first Patent Application, for a lightweight, structural, graphene composite pressure vessel, capable of being used as a structural component of the monocoque chassis of the Apricale™, or any other vehicle, machine, aircraft, ship or structure
We are now working on developing this revolutionary design for production readiness, looking to JV or license the design to store hydrogen and other volatile gases, such as oxygen and nitrogen
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So.... Structural Hydrogen? This is the first I've seen anyone trying to copy Tesla's structural battery pack. In this case, it's a cylindrical tank of hydrogen instead of a cylindrical battery.
