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Malaysian Auto Manufacturer LMG Applies

Hydrogen Boosting Technology

After Hydrogen Boost has been in business for six years marketing hydrogen boosting technology as an aftermarket retrofit to automobiles, we have now discovered that a similar technology is for the first time being offered on production vehicles in Malaysia by LMG Auto.

LMG to display cars at 2006 Oman Motor Show

September 23, 2006 @ 4:07 am · Filed under Cars, Malaysian Makes, Intl News, LMG Auto

While the company has been pretty much silent in Malaysia since it’s launch, LMG Auto will be displaying it’s LMG cars at the 2006 Oman Motor Show. Anyone have any news on LMG? For those who are out of the loop, LMG recently launched two new cars in Malaysia – the LMG Tourer and the LMG Trekker. Both are powered by a hybrid combination of a Mitsubishi 2.4 liter SOHC engine combined with a hydrogen injection system that they call Hydroxene, which creates hydrogene from water.

Some of you may remember a piece of news in July where a team of Universiti Sains Malaysia researches led by Dr Syamsul Rizal Abd Shukor came up with a way to produce hydrogen in a system compact enough to be fitted into a car. The system involved using waste aluminium metal and sodium hydroxide to separate water into it’s components – hydrogen and oxygen.

While I’m not sure if the new Hydroxene system in LMG’s new pick-ups and SUVs are based on the results of this USM research, it works very similiarly.

Hydrogen fuel has been researched extensively by both Mazda with their Hydrogen Renesis engine as well as BMW with their hydrogen powered V12 7-series, but these technologies never made it into the production line because of trouble separating hydrogen from water.

Any of you remember the Mercedes Benz F600 Hygenius Concept I posted a long time ago? That car ran on hydrogen as well. Where to get this hydrogen has always been a problem. LMG’s on-board electrolysis device could be the catalyst to a new generation of fuel saving hybrids. For now, LMG’s system runs on a mix of both petrol and hydrogen, but a pure hydrogen system would definitely be possible. The mixture of petrol and water results in an effective reduction in fuel consumption of up to 50%. These systems have been available as a bolt on device before, but this is likely the first system that comes with a production car.

Note: Hydrogen Boost has had contact with numerous Malaysia customers and prospects but it is unlikely that LMG originated their technology from our contact.

To read more about the LMG Hydroxene technology and discussion from bloggers go to http://paultan.org/archives/2006/08/15/lmg-tourer-with-hydroxene-technology/