Now, the Danish company Just Eat can look forward to delivering food in the world’s first registered methanol-driven fuel cell car. The electric vehicle runs 800 kilometres without recharging. This is now a reality with a new range-extender, developed by the Danish project ’Modular Energy Carrier Concept’ (MECc). The range-extender applies a groundbreaking fuel cell technology, which is based on bio-methanol as energy source and makes it possible to extend the range of electric cars from 100 to 800 kilometres – four times longer than the average electric car today.
The model variant which Just Eat has tested over the past seven weeks is Fiat 500 configured with a battery pack and the range-extender. The past year 2016, the project has run successful internal tests. Now, the car is cruising the roads in Denmark as the world’s first registered methanol-driven car and has passed its test in a living lab setup at Just Eat.Due to Just Eat the test has been so successful that the company has decided to continue delivering food in the methanol-driven fuel cell car – now in normal operation and no longer as a test. This marks an important milestone for the technology and not least for sustainable transport in general as it means that methanol-driven fuel cell cars can now cruise the roads of Denmark on commercial terms.
The fuel cell technology, which is applied in the project, can be implemented and adjusted to most electric cars and can thereby contribute to eliminating any type of range anxiety at the same time as creating a cost effective alternative to existing electric cars.
