i-H2GO: iPhone Controlled Toy Car Runs On Hydrogen

Published: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 11:45 [IST]

Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies is a Singapore based company which specialises in fuel cell technology. The company offers fuel cell based products, which range from production and supply of fuel cell products for commercial purposes and industries to fuel cell powered, remote controlled toy cars.

The product they have come out with recently, which also interests us most is the i-H2GO. The i-H2GO is an electric toy car that gets its juice from hydrogen fuel cells and is the third such product coming from Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies.

H-Racer

The company's first fuel cell toy car, also the world's smallest hydrogen fuel cell car, was the H-Racer. This hit the market in June 2006.

H2GO

What followed was H2GO. Developed in collaboration with Corgi International, this was slightly more advanced and reliable. The car here is controlled with regular radio signals.

The complete kit

The latest product is the i-H2GO. This is how it runs. The car comes with a ‘refueling station' and a photovoltaic cell panel, which powers the ‘refueling station'.

Electrolysis of water

The refueling station is basically a jar into which we pour water and there hydrogen atoms are stripped out and collected. This H2 can then be used by the fuel cells within the car.

Samrtphone/Table controller

Then it is a matter of pairing the car using Wi-Fi with a smartphone and using a free app the car can be controlled, just like any other RC car. The iH2GO costs $180 (Rs 10,709) and will go on sale from August.