Samsung Engineering recently announced that it has conducted a successful test-ride of the first hydrogen-powered motorcycle in Korea.
The company explained that "the newly-developed technology uses a water-based solution of sodium borohydride, made from sodium borate, to produce hydrogen gas.
The scooter can run up to 140 ㎞ on 6 liters of hydrogen fuel."
"On 6 liters of hydrogen fuel, the vehicle can travel three times farther than a scooter powered by a nickel-cadmium cell, saying that the technology can also be applied in automobiles, laptop computers and mobile phones", the company added
But the downside is that there are only about 300 million tons of sodium borate worldwide, located mostly in Tibet, and that annual global production of sodium borohydride stands at 10,000 tons.
