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Hyperion XP-1 Hydrogen Powered Hypercar Has A 1000-Mile Range!
https://www.carhp.com/ ^ | November 22, 2022 | Nathan Dyer

Posted on 11/26/2022 2:51:50 PM PST by Jonty30

Hyperion has unveiled their XP-1 hypercar, which is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain and has a total range of more than 1,000 miles. The Hypercar is expected to go into production this year and was spotted on the streets of Las Vegas in 2021. With this car, Hyperion plans to start a revolution in hydrogen-propulsion technology in the automobile industry.

The Hyperion XP-1 can be taken as a prime example of what a hydrogen-powered car can do. For those of you who haven’t heard about this manufacturer, they are new to the automotive business. Unlike other manufacturers using hybrid or fully electric powertrains, they have worked on creating a hydrogen fuel-cell hypercar that has 2000+ hp and a range of 1000+ miles.


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To: KC Burke
Hey KC; I think they are researching "Solid" hydrogen as a solution. Hydrogen forced into a metal matrix, Metal Hydride.

https://www.refractorymetal.org/titanium-iron-hydrogen-storage-alloy/

https://www.titaniumfelt.com/hydrogen-storage-technology/

I think that Titanium is also being researched for gas storage because it develops a hydride surface that prevents Hydrogen migration and because its light.

61 posted on 11/26/2022 5:04:06 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Jonty30

And it only takes the energy that would have moved the same car 1500 miles to do it.


62 posted on 11/26/2022 5:05:10 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Jonty30

Doubtful, for numerous reasons. It is energy intensive to separate from water, then energy intensive to compress into a lank or cool it into a liquid. There is leakage in the best storage facilities due to the small molecule. Burning for power yields a high temperature that must be radiated or conducted away, at a worse efficiency than gasoline engines. Fuel cells are cranky. They are what nearly ended Apollo 13.


63 posted on 11/26/2022 5:05:26 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Jonty30

Where are they going to get the hydrogen—Jupiter?


64 posted on 11/26/2022 5:06:07 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: GingisK

Potential to create new matter?

You do know what the first law of thermodynamics says, I hope.


65 posted on 11/26/2022 5:07:11 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Do you know about nuclear fusion? Oh, I see the problem. I was thinking bigger molecules. ;-D


66 posted on 11/26/2022 5:10:54 PM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Even fusion obeys the laws of conservation of energy.


67 posted on 11/26/2022 5:17:58 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

I know. I had a brain fart that made me think only of creating the heavier molecules, not where the material originates. Hey, I’m 73. My physics is more than 50 years away.


68 posted on 11/26/2022 5:20:11 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Jonty30

“a hydrogen fuel-cell hypercar that has 2000+ hp and a range of 1000+ miles.”

WOW! 2000+ hp. I don’t think I’d be capable of driving it, but I’d give it a shot.


69 posted on 11/26/2022 5:21:14 PM PST by bosco24 (EOD)
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To: xp38

70 posted on 11/26/2022 5:24:48 PM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: dsrtsage
Not to mention, both hydrogen and oxygen are highly flammable…

Just to be nitpicky, Oxygen isn’t flammable, it makes other things oxidize (burn).

71 posted on 11/26/2022 5:25:33 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: frank ballenger

Area 51 project?


72 posted on 11/26/2022 6:13:17 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux (Let There Be [God's] Light!))
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To: Jonty30

73 posted on 11/26/2022 6:32:30 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Jonty30

How much energy is required to produce hydrogen, store it and then how economical is it compared to gasoline powered cars?

I am betting gas/diesel/NG powered is more economical and you get more energy out of it.


74 posted on 11/26/2022 7:21:19 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("None of the people I know who didn't take take the Jab regrets their decision" ZERO)
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To: Jonty30

It’ll cause floods emitting all that deadly dihydrogen monxide. 😲😵


75 posted on 11/26/2022 7:36:35 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Jonty30; All

For years I’ve said I’d back hydrogen over electric any time. The only emission is water and it doesn’t require a fvckton of batteries which weigh the vehicle down and contribute to pollution down the road. If environmentalists were serious, hydrogen would be the way to go.

If I won the lotto, I’d invest in these guys. Hands-down.


76 posted on 11/26/2022 8:26:55 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Flick Lives; lonestar67

Wouldn’t excessive water vapor in the atmosphere simply turn into clouds - or condense as rain?


77 posted on 11/26/2022 9:58:29 PM PST by jonno (You are the carbon they want to reduce.)
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To: Glad2bnuts

The great thing about hydrogen used as a fuel is that it burns completely clean compared to hydrocarbons. So if clean engines are the goal it is something to consider if we can get hydrogen transportable without using energy made by hydrocarbons to do so.


78 posted on 11/26/2022 11:17:31 PM PST by KC Burke
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To: Jonty30

Basically, it’s an electric car that is powered by hydrogen.

Basically, it’s an electric car that is powered by electricity using hydrogen.

And how much electricity does it take to make the hydrogen?


79 posted on 11/27/2022 4:07:07 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Secret Agent Man; All
W and Arnold were (supposedly) “hydrogen highway” proponents. You see how far they got. Where was the left and climate agenda activism then twenty years ago? I road around in at least one GM hydrogen prototype in those days. The automated highway tests on I-15 were even before that, in the mid nineties, with a trunk full of computer.

I am still waiting on the future to get here. /s

Toyota has the only commercially produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle available in the US, I think. They only sell in California and recently released the second generation that looks more normal.

The radical anti-progress Left also threw up endless roadblocks on nuclear power which is the cleanest and most efficient electric production we have. And they cry about carbon emitters. As a result it’s been so long, we had a brain drain in the industry as those who had industrial skill, experience and capacity outside military applications aged out. Here in Georgia is the only new nuclear power project in the past twenty or thirty years. It had to be bailed out too. Thankfully Georgia Power didn’t give up.

80 posted on 11/27/2022 8:55:57 AM PST by newzjunkey (Vote for Hershel Walker by Dec 6th to stop Warnock (D) in Georgia)
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