Friday, March 27, 2009

Forward Motion



Success! Pete and I were able to hook up the hydrogen plumbing tonight with some unexpected help from a nearby professor and the car took its first steps toward California. After solving some leaking and control issues, the car performed well. At first we had trouble keeping the car running above a small velocity, but we increased the hydrogen inlet pressure and the car ran just fine. We plan on meeting on Sunday with the whole fuel cell team and parts of the vehicle dynamics team to try to hook up a laptop to the fuel cell and possibly fit the body onto the frame. By all indications, we are ready to start testing the car.



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