13 Jan 2012

HyAlpha- World's first Hydrogen Fuelled Vehicle


    The world’s first Hydrogen fuelled vehicle named HyAlpha displayed at the 2012 Auto Expo at New Delhi.






    HyAlpha is a 3 wheeler with a mileage of 80 Km per 1 Kg of Hydrogen. 1 Kg of Hydrogen costs around ` 250. This vehicle is developed under a project, DelHy-3W of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNI-DO)’s International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies  ( UNIDO-ICHELT) in association with Mahindra & Mahindra and IIT- Delhi, besides being supported by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). The project took three years to get the result.The approximate production cost per vehicle is around ` 2 lakh.  The company displayed 15 vehicles and using on experimental basis. 


         At present the pollution from the automobiles is very high. So the importance of a zero emission vehicle more.Even though the vehicle need a number of tests and modifications before its commercial production, it extend the scope of the generation of  zero emission vehicles.



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