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Turkish hydrogen vehicle Sahimo promises mega MPG

By John Dodge | Jul 9, 2009 |

Turkish students at Sakarya University have built a hydrogen car that promises to get the MPG equivalent of 1,336 miles.

The Sahimo, according to the web site Inhabitant.com, can be driven 353 miles on a liter of hydrogen. The students hope to torture test it across 1,864 miles of the the Australian outback from Darwin to Adelaide in the 2009 Global Green Challenge. There’s plenty of places to read about the Sahimo, but its source web site is in Turkisk and the English translation button does not seem to be working at the moment. However, the site carries a stirring rendition of the 1812 Overture which bespeaks the grand plans of the students.

The carbon fiber vehicle weighs only 110 kilos and is quite small. The photo album in Flash has many photos accompanied by some thumping techno “muzik.” a_a çok teşekkürler (”good luck” in Turkish or so Google tells me..).

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The Sahimo team

The team with Sahimo

Sahimo undressed

Sahimo undressed

Sahimo undressed
 

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John Dodge has answered the call of journalism for 33 years, most of the time covering technology, engineering and business. While he's run magazines, newsweeklies and web sites, reporting and writing always took up half his time. He has have plied his craft at the WSJ, Boston Globe, PC Week (now eWeek), EDN, Design News, Electronic Business, Bio-IT World, Health-IT World, the Lowell Sun, Haverhill Gazette and Newburyport Daily News. He would have like to have been around when Boston supported seven or more newspapers (1940s) and while steam locomotives still pulled trains, but that era was nearly over by the time he raced into the world. That said, he has been blogging and shooting and editing video, writing for web and other online contents tasks for years now.

He has won numerous journalism awards in the past two years, including two Eddie Golds, one Neal finalist and the IEEE Award for Distinguished Journalism all for his reporting and coverage of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Besides his family and myriad hobbies, reporting and writing is why he gets up in the morning. His personal blog focuses on netbooks and is called The Dodge Retort.

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