Hydrogen+Fuel+Cell+Car

This is the experiment of the usage of a hydrogen fuel cell car.

In this experiment, I used a h-tec HyRunner Hydrogen fuel cell car, to test and see how hydrogen can be created from just pure distilled water and then provide enough power to run a car.



Basically how it worked was that I squirted water into the port, which was connected to a hose that began filling up the one tank, it filled up the upside down tank as well as the area around it in the larger tank. I then repeated this for the other side. I connected the power supply, which was a basic travel charger, that had a positive and negative hook up at the end of the wire. I inserted these hookups into the car's ports. Bubbles started to come out of the tubes going to the tank.. The top of the upside down tank began to empty of water and fill with hydrogen. What was happening is that the water was undergoing electrolysis, separating the hydrogen and oxygen atoms.

The first time I experimented with the car, it didn't run very well, because i wasn't sure how it worked, but the second time i used it it ran for a total of 457 feet before it ran out of hydrogen. And the car only had approximately 15 cm³ of hydrogen, and weighed 267 grams.

What was making the car run was something called an electrolyzer. The electrolyzer does two jobs, it first separates the hydrogen and oxygen, through the electrolysis process, and it then makes the car run, by being "charged up" by the hydrogen and oxygen. That is where the car gets its power to run the motor. So the hydrogen doesn't necessarily act as a battery, it more of less acts as a fuel to charge up the "battery" like electrolyzer.

Below is a video of the experiment

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as shown above, the car does run on hydrogen. In the video only a small portion of the car running was shown, due to size requirements of the video.

Acknowledgments
Mr. Smith for all his help, not only with the experiment and support, but also the technological aspect, and trying to make everything work

My parents for providing insight, ideas, and support along the way