When a POWERPASTE cartridge is empty, it can be easily replaced at home, on the road or at any existing gas station, along with filling the water tank. Since POWERPASTE only begins to decompose at about 250ËšC, it remains safe even if a scooter sits in the baking sun for hours.
The POWERPASTE comes in a paste and can be used for any kind of vehicle – even small scooters. The institute has developed what it has named POWERPASTE, a solid magnesium hydride that stores hydrogen in a chemical form and releases it on demand. TRL 5 demonstrator of a power generator with a POWERPASTE cartridge and a 100 watt PEM fuel cell. With that in mind, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Dresden, Germany, have developed a unique hydrogen power technology that solves many of hydrogen’s problems. However, hydrogen has its own particular challenges such as complete lack of infrastructure and the equipping of vehicles with reinforced storage tanks. Germany has already started on the Hydrogen Highway with a few hundred hydrogen-powered vehicles on its roads.
