After the last year success the new, HY-GO 2.0 vehicle using hydrogen fuel was awarded by the prizes of the Most Innovative Vehicle and 1st Prize of Prototype category at 5th Széchenyi Race of the alternatively driven vehicles that was held on April 25, 2010 in Győr. The main organizer of the team and the car building was Ákos Kriston PhD student (Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Electroanalytical Chemistry, Chemistry Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, supervisor: Prof. Dr. György Inzelt). In the construction of the proton exchange fuel cell stacks Balázs Berkes 5th year chemistry student and Ákos Nemes 2nd year chemistry BSc student took part. The electric engineering work was done by Norbert Molnár (Mool Invest) as well as by Tamás Szabó (PhD student, ELTE Institute of Mathematics). For the programming and for the wireless connection the responsible team member was Soma Vesztergom 5th year chemistry student. The bipolar plates were manufactured at STS Group, Győr. The carbon fibre was made by Zoltek. The electromotor was produced by Willisits Engineering Co. The design is the work of Meshining Engineering. The intelligent controlling units were from the National Instruments. The main sponsor was the Magyar Villamos Művek Zrt (Hungarian Power Companies). The project was also helped by the Hungarian Spin-off and Start-up Society.

The main parameters are as follows.
Size: 1.5 ×1.12 ×2.74 m
Weight: 290 kg
Power: 1000 W
Amount of hydrogen fuel: 160 g
Consumption: 1.9 g H2 / km
Maximum speed: 55 km/ hours
Range: 85 km
Cost: 0.11 euro / km
CO2 emission: zero.

Short description
Two FC stacks with 10 PEMFC in each, built in the Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Electroanalytical Chemistry of ELTE.
Two metal hydride hydrogen tanks with a size of 38.4 cm × 8.9 cm. With wireless connections we could follow the hydrogen pressure, voltage, amount of water produced, variation of the power, speed, temperature of the cell and the hydrogen tanks. The cooling water of the FC kept the hydrogen tanks at ambient temperature. (It is of importance because the metal hydride while releasing hydrogen cools, and eventually below ca. 10 °C, the hydrogen supply will be too low.)
The ultralight body of the car was made from carbon fibre.

1st pic: The HY-GO team, Győr, April 25, 2010. Next the Croatian team.
2nd pic: Professor György Inzelt and Ákos Kriston have a discussion in the box street of the V. Széchenyi race. (www.hirszerző.hu; Alternatív hajtású járművek versenye Győrben, Photo:FH)
3rd pic: During the long-distance race. Driver: Tamás Szabó (Photo: Daniel Antal, http://antaldaniel.blog.hu/ )