A new ‘water fuel’ for hydrogen cars promises a range of 1,000 km between chargesjueves, 14 marzo 2019 Electriq Global is a half-Australian, half-Israeli start-up (and financed by the Netanyahu government) that ensures it is ready to test in the Netherlands its solution to the big emissions problem in combustion cars: a fuel formed in a 60% for water.Its objective is to have twice the yield, be 50% cheaper and 100% ecological, and also be included in the field of lithium-ion batteries or compressed hydrogen. Now ‘only’ needs to be made to work on a large scale.First tests, in 2020Through its partnership with the Dutch company Eleqtec, the water-based fuel of this start-up will begin its testing phase in the Netherlands in 2020. The company says it can run on a hydrogen car with a fuel cell, although it presents it as a solution for any type of vehicle in the future.But how does it work? Electriq Global fuel, based on water, releases hydrogen by reacting with a catalyst – a salt chemical called BH4 – which is used to generate electricity and power the vehicle.What they do not specify is how exactly they convert water into fuel, since this isolated element can not act as such because it does not contain chemical energy.
