Quant Salt Water Powered Car Ready For Production

The electrical car revolution promises a acute decrease in the amount of carbon emissions added to the atmosphere by automobiles. But there is one remaining problem at the moment. All around the world, much of the tens unit used to recharge our beloved electrics and plug-ins is generated by searing coal or other fossil fuels.

The Quant E-Sportlimosine (doesn’t exactly excursion off the tongue, does it?) is the world’s very first salt water powered car and it’s ready for production, according to EWA News. The heart of the car is a so-called NanoFlowcell that manufactures hydrogen gas. That hydrogen is used in a fuel cell that creates tens unit to turn the car’s electrical motors. No coal, no fossil fuels of any kind are used. Cool, huh? And because the hydrogen is only made as needed, there is no need for mighty onboard storage tanks capable of withstanding the Ten,000 psi that are needed to store liquid hydrogen.

Splitting hydrogen and oxygen atoms from water is tricky business. Genepax, a company based in Osaka, Japan, used a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) to split hydrogen molecules from the oxygen molecules via a chemical reaction in 2008. The cell only required air and water, which eliminated the need for a hydrogen reformer or a high-pressure hydrogen tank. Genepax went bankrupt shortly after unveiling its model, even however it had received a patent on its water energy system.

Stanley Allen Meyer also invented a hydrogen-powered vehicle system which was patented. His idea implemented the use of “subjecting the collected gas combination (extracted hydrogen and oxygen) to a pulsating, polar electrical field whereby electrons of the gas atoms are distended in their orbital fields by reason of their subjection to electrical polar coerces, at a frequency such that the pulsating electrified field includes a resonance with respect to an electron of the gas atom.” Got that? Stanley died in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight after a meeting with investors. According to his brother, Stanley came out of the meeting telling, “They poisoned me,” then collapsed and died.

However, also of note is that Stanley’s “water fuel cell” claims were found fraudulent in an Ohio court in 1996, and he was order to pay back the investors $25,000. Additionally, the technology evidently isn’t technically a “fuel cell” and was deemed to not be “revolutionary.” More history regarding his story is here.

So-called flow batteries are not unknown. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, they can be totally discharged without harm, have a useful life of Ten,000 cycles or more, and are infinitely scalable. But they are most suitable for large grid storage applications because they tend to be fairly a bit larger than other batteries. No one has ever attempted to put one in an automobile before, especially one that rockets to sixty mph in Two.8 seconds or less.

Production of the Quant E-Sportlimosine is supposed to begin soon, with sales in Europe following shortly thereafter. We shall see if the car actually gets built and whether any intrepid customers step forward with enough cash to buy one. No prices have been announced, but the car is likely to cost considerably more than your typical Mazda Miata.

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