Hydra (boat)

[1] Its debut was in June 2000 on the Rhine near Bonn, Germany.

The idea for this project came from Christian Machens in 1999 for designing and building the fuel cell system for the Hydra in Leipzig.

It was fully certified by the Germanischer Lloyd[3] for passenger transport, and the fuel cell system had the ability to start even at temperatures below freezing point.

Boat 12 m long, draft 0.52 m, a metal-hydrid tank for 32 m3 hydrogen, 6.8 kW AFC fuel cell,[4] at a speed of 6 kt for 22 passengers.

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