Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S – hybrid car on hydrogen and gasoline by Aston Martin

The flagship automotive Aston Martin crossed the centenarians. It is to this glorious date, the subject of the decision to start caring about the environment and in the near future is planned to equip the legendary 4-Hivernage Rapide engine that will run on hydrogen.

The car will receive a new name – the Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S. the Updated model will take part in a twenty-four hour race at the Nurburgring, Germany. Rapide, which was released in 2006, still occupies a leading place in the ranking of the most attractive sedans in the world.





Your car hydrogen-powered Aston Martin intends to take first place in the race and thus prove to the world that the car is not polluting the environment able to be really quick.

Under the hood of the new Rapide S will be placed environmental 12-cylinder engine equipped with twin turbo. The car will have a unique opportunity to run on hydrogen, gasoline and their mixtures. While driving on hydrogen the only thing that will come out of the exhaust pipe is pure water.





Instead of the usual metal tank, compressed hydrogen will be supplied to the engine from one of four heavy-duty containers that are created from carbon fibers. A specially developed system of fuel control can, if necessary, to save him expense or on the contrary to increase the engine power. The total capacity of the storage tanks for hydrogen will be about 3-3. 5 kg.

Externally, the car will not change. The only thing that will produce environmentally friendly car, is a small sticker in the corner of the windshield with the inscription Hybrid Hydrogen.





Source: ecofriendly.ru