BMW fuel cell motorcycle design concept – Click above for image gallery
Like many other automakers, BMW has expended plenty of research effort on hydrogen as a transportation fuel. Unlike everyone else, BMW has focused on liquid hydrogen with internal combustion engines. A group of design students at ISD of Valenciennes, France felt no such constraints in their latest project.
They have created a BMW-badged motorcycle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell with a lithium polymer battery for electrical energy storage. Hydrogen is stored in a 20-liter cryogenic tank. The fuel cell is mounted where the engine would normally sit and the suspension consists of single sided swing arms front and rear. Propulsion comes via a shaft drive system from the 100 kilowatt motor. At this point, the bike doesn't physically exist, but it looks really cool in the video after the jump. A tip of the hat to Radhika!
https://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/24/video-design-students-create-a-fuel-cell-powered-bmw-bike/
2010-02-24T12:59:00+00:00