‘Hydrogen-On-Tap’ Device Turns Trucks Into Fuel-Efficient Vehicles

The town of Carmel, Ind., has vehicles for plowing snow, salting streets, and carrying landscaping gear. But a single cherry-crimson pickup can do one thing no other motor vehicle can: create its possess hydrogen.

A forty five-kilogram metallic box sits in the mattress of the get the job done truck. When a driver starts the motor, the unit instantly commences concocting the colorless, odorless gas, which feeds into the engine’s intake manifold. This stops the truck from guzzling gasoline till the hydrogen source runs out. The pickup has no gasoline-cell module, a conventional part in most hydrogen cars. No high-stress storage tanks or refueling pumps are desired, both.