High Efficiency hydrogen/electric vehicle using fuel cell / Mohd Nur Azizi Zulkiply

• Main Author: Zulkiply, Mohd Nur Azizi
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/85258/1/85258.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/85258/

Spermotive-2 is an ultra-lightweight vehicle designed for the Shell Ecomarathon Asia 2013 competition in the prototype category. The specialty of this lightweight vehicle is that it using hydrogen gas instead of petrol or diesel (green technology). The gas is converted into electrical energy by a chain of chemical reactions done by a special device called the fuel cells. The generated electrical energy is used to ran the system of the vehicle as well as the drivetrain of the vehicle. The electrical system of the vehicle uses an automatic throttle control in which the motor of the vehicle is controlled by a controller that will start and stop the motor based on the velocity of the vehicle. If the vehicle is moving slower than the desired speed, the power will be supplied to the engine. When the desired speed is achieved, the power will be stopped, thus reducing the usage of the power as the power will only be used when necessary. Spermotive-2 objective is to ran with the most efficient fuel usage to ensure optimum usage of power.