Hydrogen powered Ranger

[sgtsandman]

That's interesting. Propane as a stove fuel is effective in cold temperatures. Winter blend fuel canisters typically run higher percentage mixes of propane (vs butane). Though when it gets really cold (close to zero and below) you do start seeing liquid fuel stoves get used a lot more.

The last time I was out camping in the cold, the cylinders were freezing up on the stove. I was cooking on a griddle, so both burners were going. That may have been why but it's just what I saw. There may be more to it than that.

 

[Dirtman]

The last time I was out camping in the cold, the cylinders were freezing up on the stove. I was cooking on a griddle, so both burners were going. That may have been why but it's just what I saw. There may be more to it than that.

 

[Dirtman]

Also i wanna see the crash test videos of hydrogen powered vehicles.

DOT natural gas/propane tanks can basically be run over by a train and survive so I see no reason hydrogen would be different. No matter what vehicle you drive, you're carrying a bomb... Gasoline, electric, hydrogen... All bombs...

 

[RonD]

Bombs go Ka-BOOM


"A pure hydrogen flame will not produce smoke", so that's on the plus side in my opinion

I mean who wants to cough AND burn, when you can just burn

 

[Dirtman]

Bombs go Ka-BOOM

Oh sure single out the ONE thing they do for a single second in their ENTIRE lives....

 

[RonD]

Irish Alzheimer's, you only remember the bad things someone/thing does

Or my Wife

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

At -42C propane wont turn from liquid to gas. But it's pretty easy to put a battery blanket on the cylinder and voila, the propane comes out as a gas again. This was on my RV when I was living in it at -45. Same battery blanket on a vehicle tank works there too. But I think there needs to be an extra battery blanket under the hood on the (cant remember proper term...) converter so the liquid turns to gas. On vehicles the tank feeds liquid to the converter and that feeds gaseous propane to the carb.

 

[Roert42]

When it gets does around freezing I have to take a bowl of hot water outside and pour it on the regulator on my propane tanks for my stove to thaw it out , I assume condensation gets trapped in there and freezes. Like if you let the gas tank get too low and you get ice in your fuel pump.

 

[DeathRanger]

This is not the way
$140,000 for base conversion
$183,000 for top of the line

Ford Ranger Hydrogen Conversion Can Cost As Much As $183,000

H2X Global announces the pricing for the Warrego hydrogen fuel-cell EV, which is practically a Ford Ranger that underwent a conversion.

www.motor1.com

 

[89Twincharge]

What would make hydrogen better is a self contained hydro generator then just need water for fuel... They were made along time ago but buried by big oil.

 

[fastpakr]

No they weren't.

 

[bobbywalter]

The reason my ranger is multi fuel is because of the time I spent with propane and natural gas ... Many of the guys I wheel with have propane. Propane is not as easy as you think it is to get in usable cost effective quantities if you are traveling the country

The only reason I don't use natural gas is the cost and wait time to get a reliable....RELIABLE ...compressor to rapid fill at home or on the fly...otherwise I would be.. .

It is the reason I bought a power stroke van over a TRI-fuel van in 2000 or so....

I had systems from 4.6 crown vics and 5.4 e series bouncing around with me since the late 90,s untill about 3 years ago.

Those fuel tanks were composites and have a shelf life for the oem applications...and when those times were up the fleet rigs get scrapped as it was not cost effective to get new tanks.

So cheap and available for a short time.

Propane and natural gas are awesome....and don't spoil ... Big forklift tanks for propane are cheap and not bad to install. And will allow an engine to run in any position untill oil starvation or pooling kills it.

Ng tanks have to be high psi....so...propane is much easier....and can co-fuel with diesel if you can incorporate pilot injection....I am still playing with that...

Using metal hydride to store hydrogen takes the safety factor up on an exponent.... use heating elements to release....size and weight to make up the efficiency loss is a factor for small vehicles.

 

[bobbywalter]

But the electric vehicles running around here now....

Are likely going to be the majority before too long... And they are bad ass.

 

[89Twincharge]

No they weren't.

The mysterious death of Stanley Meyer and his water powered car – The Classic Car Trust

tcct.com

Also worth reading

History of Hydrogen Powered Cars – ** Fuel Efficient Vehicles **

Hydrogen can be derived from water the h in H20 is hydrogen! It's not new technology and certainly not going anywhere any time soon

 

[89Twincharge]

This excerpt from the second site I linked its a lil info about a 98 ranger converted to hydrogen