Muhaimin Iqbal
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FlexiEV: Super Flexible Electric Vehicle

Advanced Renewable

Tue , 14 May 2024 11:44 WIB

Domestically produced vehicles designed at the Advanced Renewable Organization (ARO), specifically for equal distribution of prosperity in this country of 17,500 islands, may have to be different from those on the market. The type needed is an SUV, an all-terrain vehicle that must be able to operate on even the most remote islands - where there may not be a continuous fuel supply on the island.

So what does this vehicle run on? This vehicle is a hybrid type with standard petrol fuel and can also run on electricity, but on remote islands there may not always available petrol or electricity, so what is the solution? What is special about this vehicle is the SR3 reactor (Synthesis and Reforming Reversible Reactor) which is installed at the rear of the vehicle.

With the SR3, the vehicle can be fueled with gasoline or its battery charged under normal conditions, but when conditions are not normal it can be given fuel from whatever biomass is on site. After the biomass is gasified into syngas (CO and H2), the syngas can be directly converted into electricity via Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC), or converted into biogasoline via SR3.

Bogasoline can be used directly as fuel for the vehicle, but it is more efficient to only use it as a stored energy reserve. When it is ready to be used, the biogasoline is reformed to become syngas and used as fuel for fuel cells, because the efficiency level of fuel cells is around 2 times that of an internal combustion engine, this method will increase the efficiency of biomass fuel - as biomass may also be limited.

After we have determined all the design parameters, now the AI team's job is to see what the vehicle we call the FlexiEV looks like, more or less like the image below. From this design process, the most important lesson is not actually the FlexiEV vehicle itself, because there maight be no big market for it yet.

But the most important lesson is that with the synthesis and reforming technology that we combine in the SR3 reactor, we can overcome all the energy problems needed in remote and isolated areas, for whatever reason, it can be due to natural causes such as the example of the islands mentioned above, it can also because of a devastating disaster that makes an area isolated, and it could also be because of the threat of a major war like the one facing the world today.