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06 Feb 2002

Fuel Cell Scooters: Eliminating a Major Source of Pollution

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Whitney Colella, University of Oxford
Motor scooters emit a disproportionate amount of pollution for their size, polluting more than heavy duty trucks per mile. In this report Whitney Colella looks at scooter emissions and the scooter markets in Asia, and summarises her research into fuel cell powered scooters, a promising alternative.

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Whitney Colella is a doctoral researcher working on the computer modelling of fuel cell systems in the Department of Engineering Sciences at The University of Oxford. To contact her, please see her profile in Fuel Cell Today's Industry Directory.

Whitney Colella is also author of "Market Prospects, Design Features, and Performance of a Fuel Cell-Powered Scooter", Journal of Power Sources, 2000, Vol. 86, p.255, an abstract of which can also be found at ScienceDirect.

This study investigates 1) the market opportunities, 2) the design features, and 3) the technical performance of a scooter powered by Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells.

Market research was conducted in Bangkok, Thailand. A low-power scooter was designed and tested for the analysis. It is based on more extensive research at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University [W. Colella, Fuel Cell Powered Scooters, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1997].

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