The American-Danish joint enterprise Metha Energy Solutions and Serenergy have presented a concept that gives electronic cars the same qualities found in gasoline-powered cars.
It has taken seven years for Danish engineers to bring about this development of fuel cell technology in order to gain more energy out of a mixture of methanol and water from a fuel cell than previously. In one blow this new technology makes the electronic car both realizable and a commercial alternative to the traditional gasoline-driven car, the companies state, adding the slow and difficult charging of an electronic car's battery and its short action-radius have until now been the greatest obstacles for electronic cars.
It takes a mere two minutes to fill a tank with methanol, says Jesper Toft, CEO of Metha Energy Solutions.
Advantages to this solution include being fast and easy to implement, since methanol can be distributed in the same way as gasoline, eliminating the billions that would be used to set up a new infrastructure with charging-stations and parking lot/garage charging-systems, explains Jesper Toft, who adds the internal combustion engine is replaced with an electric motor and a small power-station (fuel cell), which provides electric current in the car as it is used.
On the environmental side, this solution can reduce emissions of CO2 by between 60 to 70 percent compared to gasoline- and diesel-driven vehicles, company reps add. This contributes significantly to solving global climate challenges.
For more information, visit www.methaenergy.com.
