Jatropha Or Efficient Vehicle.
Friends,
This is another area where GOI & the President have let us down.
While world is investing in energy efficient vehicles, India is investing in Jatropha, a poisonous weed
that no eat and its nuts are the most poisonous.
We are always doing “Garbage Work”.
Nation is incompetently managed and governed.
The links at the end give more details and pictures.
Ravinder Singh
ETH Zurich: Vehicle with the highest fuel efficiency
Zürich, 28.6.2005 / CC 44 / bhu/bm
ETH Zurich has set a new world record for fuel efficiency. This now stands at 5385 kilometres per litre of petrol. The world-record holding PAC-Car operates on a hydrogen powered fuel cell.
ETH Zurich set itself a goal to construct a vehicle that used as little fuel as possible and provided the highest possible fuel efficiency. So they gave the so-called PAC-Car a fuel cell that produces electrical energy from hydrogen and drives two electric motors. The only "emission" from PAC-Car is pure water. The car is lightweight, weighing in at only about 30 kilograms. And, PAC-Car has now achieved its goal: it finished
the course at the Shell Eco-Marathon taking place on the Michelin test track at Ladoux, France, using only 1.02 grams of hydrogen. This converts to about 5385 kilometres per litre of petrol, a new world record in economical fuel consumption. This means that PAC-Car would only use eight litres to drive around the globe.
Student project
PAC-Car is a collaborative project of ETH Zurich and the Federal Office for Energy (financial support), the
Paul Scherrer Institute, the University of Valenciennes, France and the industrial partners ESORO, RUAG and Tribecraft. About 20 ETH students worked on the project, most of them from the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. The two drivers, both women, are also students at ETH Zurich.
Also a model for economical passenger cars.
The ETH engineers integrated current developments in fuel cell and propulsion technology, aerodynamics,
lightweight construction, and control technology as well as other areas into PAC-Car. They tested the system intensively together with their partners from science and industry, which means there is a good chance that some of the ideas and applications from the project could be integrated into street vehicles in future. This should contribute to a reduction in fuel consumption and pollutant emissions from passenger vehicles.
Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.
Offline 
Send Email