Stanford Ovshinsky's Hydrogen-Powered Hybrid Prius Car, 2009

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Artifact Overview

The Prius pictured here is not your typical gasoline-electric hybrid car. Stanford Ovshinsky, an innovator for renewable resources, replaced the standard gasoline fuel tank with a hydrogen fuel tank. The change from gasoline to hydrogen fuel results in a vehicle that releases only water through the exhaust instead of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and oxides of nitrogen.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Digital photograph

Subject Date

April 2009

Creator Notes

Photographed by Michelle Andonian.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.156.3.124

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Stanford Ovshinsky.

Technique

Digital photography (Digital camera)

Color

Multicolored

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