This time, they wanted to replace the batteries with fuel cells. The following year, the students approached Ford for help in producing a followup vehicle. and set a record for electric-powered vehicles. Led by Georgio Rizzoni, professor of mechanical engineeringĪnd director of the University’s Center for Automotive Research, the Buckeye Bullet hit 314.958 m.p.h. In 2004, students from Ohio State University brought a streamliner, the official name for a class of vehicles that look like cruise missiles, to Bonneville. “The Buckeye Bullet is getting ready to go for 350 right now,” he adds. Ijaz is ecstatic: “We set the first record for fastest fuel cell electric car. Announced to the world in July, the Ford Hydrogen Fusion 999 is named after the car that Henryįord drove to a land speed record in 1904. Ijaz, manager of fuel cell vehicle engineering at Ford, and his team are running a fuel cell-powered electric car. One racer has already crashed at 170 m.p.h.
It’s Speed Week at Bonneville, a yearly ritual of triple-digit one-upmanship across an oblivion of white salt.
Those were the first words from Mujeeb Ijaz when I reached his cellphone yesterday, at 5:25 p.m. (Photograph by Sam VarnHagen/Ford Motor Co.) The Ford Hydrogen Fusion 999 on the salt flats in Utah.
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