He said that in terms of future-proofing low-volume, ‘high-output’ sports cars, “sustainable fuels could be the solution”.
“In our case, we believe hydrogen as a fuel could be one. Hydrogen has the green merit of being very compatible with electrification, because the parallel path to hydrogen as a fuel is hydrogen as a fuel cell, which produces electricity.
“That’s good because the end-to-end industrial path for hydrogen will be compatible with electrification, so we believe that could be one way forward.”
Rossi revealed that Alpine aims to showcase hydrogen-combustion technology in a racing car in the future, either in Le Mans or another discipline, and could even create a bespoke prototype – in the vein of Volkswagen’s ID R electric racer – “that could take the Nurburgring record or things like that”.
“We believe there might be a proof of concept that could be done,…
Alpine investigating hydrogen-combustion for future sports cars
