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Imperial College Launches Hybrid Fuel-Cell Racing Program; First Target is Formula Zero in 2008

November 23, 2006

The Formula Zero Mark 2 prototype design. Click to enlarge.

Imperial College (UK) has established the Imperial Hybrid Racing program, a multidisciplinary project bringing together students from across the School of Engineering in partnership with the Business School to design, build and race a zero-emission hybrid fuel-cell racing car.

A working prototype of a hybrid fuel-cell go-cart will be made in the first year of the project (2006/07), and a full fuel-cell powered version will be made by the end of the second year (2007/08). The Imperial cart will use both batteries and supercapacitors for energy storage.

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