Tom Vreugdenhil works on world’s most efficient hydrogen car

Drive 3.400 kilomters (2.112 miles) on 1 kilo of hydrogen? This study-year at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Tom Vreugdenhil from Delfgauw, along with 22 fellow students, works on the world’s most efficient hydrogen-run car. By continuing to innovate and looking for the limits of what is technically possible, the students want to show everything that can be realized. With their hyper-efficient hydrogen city-size car the team hopes to show the importance of hydrogen and durability in the coming year

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Hydrogen-run car
The Eco-Runner Team Delft is a self-governing group of students from the TU Delft. The stsudents, attending different studies at the university, have been designing and building a new hydrogen car for every year since 2005. For a full year Tom voluntarily put his study on hold in order to fully focus on building the Eco XII hydrogen car in the D:DREAM Hall, a specially designed building on.

The most economical car
Tom is determined to win a title at the Shell Eco-marathon coming spring, a world-wide competition in energy efficiency for which participants design cars to reach the highest possible fuel efficiency. Tom, chief vehicle dynamics within the team, is responsible for steering, the tires/wheel set-up, suspension, and the braking system of the car. “I’ve always had a great interest in engineering and since childhood I’ve spend all my spare time working on all kinds of engineering projects. And to be able to spend a year working on something like this is truly incredible,” according to Tom. The Shell Eco-marathon will take place at the end of this study-year.