Not forgotten as that is the Ford Fusion I mention in the question. And
it was not hydrogen powered. It used electric motors to drive the car.
That is part and parcel of the question being discussed...
mayf
speedtimer@beyondbb.com wrote:
> Didn't you guys forget Rick Byrnes and the Ford. He went 200 with a
> hydrogen power vehicle.
> GB
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
> To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:29 AM
> Subject: [Land-speed] Buckeye Bullet
>
>
>> Dale Pulju sent me a note about the Buckeye Bullet setting a record
>> of 300 + mph with Hydrogen. Now this brings an interesting question
>> or two. But first, I say well done to that effort! Now the
>> questions: they had previously set a record using batteries.
>> Batteries are electric storage devices. So the record was listed as
>> an electrical record. Good enough I say. But now another record is
>> claimed as a hydrogen record. Yet the car's drive system was
>> electrical. Hydrogen (actually hydrogen and oxygen mix) was used to
>> produce electricity which powered the car. So was the original
>> record using batteries really a gasoline record because the batteries
>> that supplied the power were charged via some generator? Or Nuke
>> because the electrons came from that? With the H2O2 and the fuel
>> cells generating electrons I believe that the record is really an
>> electrical one. Think hard about this. Do the rule making
>> authorities need new definitions of what actually powers a vehicle?
>> Take a hybrid vehicle. Doesn't the gasoline motor provide most of
>> the power? If so, why is it called a hybrid? If I could put a
>> gasoline powered generator in a car and use the gen power to run the
>> electric motor that drives the wheels, would that be electrical or
>> fossil fuel powered? It cannot run without gasoline so is it defined
>> as a petroleum powered car or electrical. Isn't that what a hybrid
>> is? Me, I think that the drive mechanism has to be primarily fueled
>> by something directly and that should be the definition. for instance
>> the car that Jesse James used had a true hydrogen motor. The fuel was
>> directly powering the vehicle. The Ford Fusion and the Buckeye
>> Bullet used electric drive to move the vehicle and I think that is
>> electrical. Not hydrogen.
>>
>>
>> Any thoughtful comments out there? I am sitting here waiting for
>> parts....
>>
>>
>> mayf
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