Morgan, the British builder of limited production sports cars, is planning to build an environmentally friendly sports car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. Morgan will team up with experts from across the country to build the "LIFECar" a fuel cell racer. The project is expected to take about two years. Projects like this do a lot to engage the public's mind in the potential of fuel cell vehicles.
The LIFECar:
will be based on the Morgan Aero Eight, and will be powered by a QinetiQ-made fuel cell, which converts hydrogen - and oxygen taken from the air around it - into electrical energy. It will be clean, quiet and economic, and the only waste product from the car will be water. The car's power system will be incredibly efficient, producing significant improvements over current fuel cell prototype vehicles, with the fuel cell powering four separate electric motors, one at each drive wheel.
