The H-racer is a futuristic toy car that contains one
of the most exciting and advanced technologies of
the 21st century. This car operates on 100% clean
fuel produced by a miniature solar-powered
hydrogen refueling station that converts water to
hydrogen using energy captured from the sun.
Cars running on clean and renewable fuel are the
dream of many of today's world leaders,
engineers and scientists seeking to eliminate
mankind's reliance on fossil fuels in favor of climatefriendly
energy resources.
With new advances in technology, hydrogen is on
its way to becoming the world's next fuel. Hydrogen
offers many important advantages: it is non-toxic,
renewable, clean to use, and the most abundant
element in our universe. And by using fuel cell
technology to convert hydrogen to electricity without
any combustion, the technology is a significant
solution to many of our global energy and
environmental problems.
No combustion occurs inside a fuel cell. The only
exhaust resulting from hydrogen fuel cell cars is
pure water. Fuel cell cars that use hydrogen as a
fuel are also known as zero emission vehicles.
Today, many of the world's automotive companies
including Toyota, GM, Ford, Honda, and Daimler-
Chrysler, are developing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
with the hope of introducing this technology to the
public in the near future.
The H-racer is the working miniature version of
what is being developed in real-size cars of the
future. This palm-size fuel cell car contains an onboard
hydrogen storage tank, a fuel cell system
connected to the car's electric motor, and a
hydrogen refueling system linking the car's storage
tank to an external hydrogen refueling station.
Given its small size, the H-racer is also very safe
as only tiny quantities of hydrogen are sufficient to
power the car.