ADVISORY/Fuel-cell Powered Car Sets Guinness World Record by Traveling 217 Miles Without Recharging
3 October 2000
ADVISORY/Fuel-cell Powered Car Sets Guinness World Record by Traveling 217 Miles Without Recharging
--Cost of fuel for the journey: $4 when the technology is commercialized
| WHAT: | Completion of the "EVictory Project," a dramatic demonstration of an electric vehicle powered by a revolutionary new fuel cell. The "EVictory Project," as the record-setting effort was called, has broken the last barrier to a commercially viable electric vehicle - limited range. The car set out from the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, NJ, and reached Howard, PA, a distance of 217 miles on a single charge. The Guinness World Book of Records calls it: "The longest run on a single charge by a modified production vehicle run on a fuel cell." |
| HOW: | The car was powered by the EVonyx RPC(TM) (Revolutionary Power Cell) metal/air fuel cell, an energy source that is high-power, low-cost, non-polluting and so versatile that it can be used anywhere from small electronics to large power plants. Estimated cost of the fuel for the journey, when the technology is commercialized, would be about $4. |
| WHO: | EVonyx is the metal-air fuel cell subsidiary of Reveo Inc., an Elmsford, NY-based research, development and commercialization company focused on vanguard technologies having the potential to benefit humanity. Dr. Sadeg M. Faris, founder of Reveo Inc., will give a presentation on how the technology works and will be available for interviews following the press conference. The record-setting car will be there as well. WHEN: Wednesday, October 4, 2000 at 11am |
| WHERE: | Parks Room, Tavern on the Green Central Park West at 67th Street, New York, NY |