The authorship of the project belongs to specialists of the Siberian Federal University. The main advantage of the new power unit is its ability to operate efficiently at extreme subzero temperatures, down to -65 °C. It is noteworthy that foreign analogues can only withstand tests down to -36 °C.
In Arctic conditions, the cost of traveling in a car with a new hydrogen engine will be 200 rubles per 10 km. Photo: YandexGPT 2 The presented engine weighs only five kg and uses hydrogen as fuel, which in the future is planned to be obtained from associated petroleum gases burned today. At the moment, the development has already successfully passed all the planned tests and is preparing to go into series. It is expected that mass production of this engine will be launched in Krasnoyarsk and Donetsk in the second half of this year.
They plan to use this unit not only in cars, but also as emergency heating stations. Reportedly, several such installations will allow heating a large apartment building.
