First ultra-compact engine unveiled: Experts say it is “the end of hydrogen”. Dec. 2, 2024

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/first-ultra-compact-engine-unveiled/9238/

by Tymofiy2

5 comments

  1. It’s a real pet peeve of mine to see clickbait articles about the energy and transportation industry written by authors who clearly have no understanding of the complexities involved. Common themes include exaggerated claims like “new hydrogen tech will blow batteries out of the water” or “new battery tech will render traditional batteries obsolete.” These articles often ignore the significant challenges of taking a prototype from the lab to scaled production at a competitive cost—a process so difficult that it often leads to the failure of many promising products. In the case of this engine, my bet is that this is vaporware.

  3. Can’t wait to put one of these things on my go cart.

  4. Excellent a new “steam stink boat” engine.

    Still, better late than never.

    Hopefully it IS what it claims to be. (and also throttle-able durable maintainable etc)

    Then it can be used to run alternators 🙂

    (and do actual work)

    Electric machines do not care where they get their Electro Motive Potential from.

    (electrons in the state we call Volts)

    This may be great in backup situations , Remote Homes,Cell Phone Towers, Radio Stations/Repeaters, Military vehicles … But then there are already working compact or otherwise fine, solutions for those.

    Now I’m off to search for a new Buggy Whip.

  5. The article has quite a few words for so little substance. Calls the engine “powerful and efficient”, but 16 hp and 30 Nm isn’t enough for much anything in itself and the article didn’t give any figures for its efficiency. 16 hp _max output_ of this is less than typical Tesla power _mean output_ when driving economically. That’s despite of Teslas being very efficient and having regenerative braking.

    But if this truly would be cheap, efficient and durable, it could serve as a range extender for plugin hybrids, although 16 hp is a bit low for that too. Ideally you would have about double that even for a range extender.

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