Notes and commentary by Kenny Herman.
General Motors has tailored a HUMMER H2 SUT to run on hydrogen, and can share it with the workplace of the Governor of California. The HUMMER H2H will help efforts to be taught extra about hydrogen storage and refueling infrastructure growth. This experimental automobile additionally illustrates how business and authorities can collaborate to make gasoline cell know-how and California’s Hydrogen Highway Network viable.
“The H2H is a daring experiment that together with the Hydrogen Highway Network will assist California reveal the financial and technical viability of hydrogen,” stated Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Californians invent the longer term. The H2H – a HUMMER fueled by hydrogen, with its principal tailpipe emission being water vapor – is a imaginative and prescient of the longer term. This is a studying automobile that may illustrate how a thriving financial system and ecology can co-exist.”
“The H2H was created for 2 functions,” stated Beth Lowery, GM vice chairman, Environment & Energy. “It brings focus and a spotlight to the journey to a hydrogen financial system, and it’ll present GM with key learnings on hydrogen storage, hydrogen supply programs, and hydrogen refueling infrastructure growth.”
The H2H is a HUMMER H2 that has been extensively re-engineered to function on gaseous hydrogen gasoline. The truck makes use of a supercharged model of the truck’s unique Vortec 6000 (6.0-liter V-8) inside combustion engine. The H2H just isn’t meant for manufacturing.