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A Motorcycle That Runs Clean And Quiet

Posted November 22, 2006 6:38 PM

From BusinessWeek Online -- Innovation & Design:

The ENV is the world's first motorcycle built around a hydrogen fuel cell. Running clean and quiet, it is, to date, the simplest and most innovative articulation of that technology's potential

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Yanthram
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11/23/2006 11:09 PM

How do you store the hydrogen ? If that is possible why not covert petrol engines to run on H2 ?
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11/27/2006 4:25 AM

It is not easy to change pertol engine to run with Hydrogen. Because hydrogen fuel the cylinder volume hould be high, because air to fuel ratio should be 1:100.
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Re: A Motorcycle That Runs Clean And Quiet

11/24/2006 2:33 AM

A whole new kind of "articulatio" to be sure. Click the link, get a blank page.
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11/24/2006 2:49 AM

Link works ok for me

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Re: A Motorcycle That Runs Clean And Quiet

11/24/2006 12:27 PM

sounds good click the link and get no information about the bike whatsoever
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11/24/2006 4:12 PM

Link seems to work fine for me, are you still having trouble with it?
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Re: A Motorcycle That Runs Clean And Quiet

11/25/2006 1:28 PM

the link worked for me but there is no info about the bike its about cars?
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