Fuel cell sports car
A wholly British partnership is to develop the world's first environmentally clean sports car, powered by a fuel cell which converts hydrogen into electricity.
QinetiQ, the Morgan Motor Company, Cranfield and Oxford
OSCar Automotive are responsible for the overall system design and architecture of the so-called LIFECar, which will be based on the Morgan Aero Eight. It will be powered by a QinetiQ-made Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) that will drive four separate electric motors, one at each drive wheel.
Because regenerative braking and surplus energy will be used to charge ultra-capacitors on-board the car, which will then release their energy when the car is accelerating, the car will only need a small 24KW fuel cell to provide power, as opposed to the 85kW proposed by most competitor systems.
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