Making hydrogen powered cars is child’s play apparently- at least that might be the impression you get from the HICE vehicle- constructed by students from Los Altos Academy of Engineering in California.
High school students from the academy have produced a fully functional combustion vehicle using a Honda engine converted to run on hydrogen.
The HICE vehicle-which stands for Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine-originally appeared in the Shell Eco Marathon of 2008- but has since undergone further work to produce it in a full body casing. The students at the academy now intend to enter the new improved model in next year’s Eco Marathon too.
The HICE is a three-wheeled, single seater vehicle which uses a modified internal combustion engine to generate electric power instead of an expensive fuel cell. In it , gaseous hydrogen is injected into the engine, which then burns the hydrogen fuel much as it would burn gasoline.
Students at the school have already produced their own electric vehicles, and another hydrogen vehicle called Infusion .
