Obrist Hyper Hybrid: The Tesla with a Combustion Engine that Uses Hydrogen Based Fuel

Obrist Hyper Hybrid: The Tesla with a combustion engine that uses hydrogen based fuel.

Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek presented the prototype of a car that can be powered by the synthetic fuel methanol in Berlin. The basis of this fuel is green hydrogen, one of the most important basic building blocks for the climate-friendly conversion of key industries in Germany and the entire world, and CO2, which can be extracted from industrial exhaust gases.

Anja Karliczek, Federal Research Minister stated:

Climate protection can only be achieved with green hydrogen.

“That is why we are already massively supporting research into the use of green hydrogen, with efforts to be stepped up again in the coming years.”

Especially in industry and transport, we will continue to need chemical energy sources in the future. And: Not all industrial processes can be completely decarbonized. CO2 will continue to be produced. We need solutions for this.

Today, we are building a very interesting bridge between these two points: the use of methanol from “recycled” CO2 from industry as a fuel in road traffic. My company is providing an additional 10 million euros for research into this value chain.

But the methanol car itself is also an “innovation showcase” for the low-emission, resource- and energy-efficient mobility of tomorrow. Thanks for staying up to date with Hydrogen Central. Synthetic fuels have an important role to play in making a sustainable, climate-friendly mobility system possible worldwide.

“This is important in shipping and air traffic or where a charging station for the electric car may not always be available in the future. This is where the serial hybrid drive can be a good solution in the future.”

Prof. Robert Schlögl, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion and Carbon2Chem project coordinator, emphasizes:

The urgency of climate protection requires a rapid and comprehensive introduction to renewable energy.

“In a global market for renewable energy, carbonaceous energy sources such as methanol are central building blocks. The presented concept of the serial hybrid drive combines the advantages of the efficient electric drive and the energy-dense and easily accessible synthetic fuel methanol. This concept needs to be further optimized through the research project presented here.”

Frank Wolf, CEO of the OBRIST Group, adds:

Our HyperHybrid powertrain, whose zero-vibration generator generates electricity with green methanol, is an essential innovation for globally applicable, affordable and emission-neutral e-mobility – a car with green, liquid electricity in the tank!

Background:

The methanol car is part of the flagship project Carbon2Chem, which aims to reduce CO2 emissions in the steel industry and has so far been funded by the BMBF with 145 million euros. The project, which was launched in 2016, converts the steel mill’s CO2-containing metallurgical gases into basic chemicals and synthetic fuels with the help of green hydrogen.

Since 2020, Carbon2Chem has been preparing the industrial implementation in a second project phase. This includes the establishment of value chains for the products produced.

The work package on the methanol car, which was added in August 2021, focuses on the recycling of Carbon2Chem’s main product, methanol. To this end, a concept for a serial hybrid drive for automobiles, among other things, is being further developed, optimized and implemented as a demonstrator.

For this purpose, Obrist DE GmbH works together with the TU Munich, the TU Dresden and the RWTH Aachen. The work package on the methanol car will be funded with a further almost 10 million euros.

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Karliczek: CO2 exhaust gases from the steel industry are “recycled” into fuels, September 22, 2021