Family car

This is your average car for use on good roads with civilization all around -- the typical family living in a settled area might have one or two of these. It uses a hydrogen fuel cell as its power source, because it is cheap and safe to operate as well as being very clean.

Subassemblies and Body Features: 4 Wheels (Wh). Fair streamlining.

Propulsion: Wheeled drivetrain, 60 kW [80 lbs, 1.6 cf, $800].

Miscellaneous: Burglar Alarm [$600].

Controls: Electronic [$500].

Occupancy: Short.

Passengers: 3.

Crew: 1 driver, who steers the vehicle.

Accommodation: 4 internal seats, of which two are roomy (one of which is the driver's crew station) [140 lbs, 140 cf, $400].

Safety Systems: Compact Fire Suppression [50 lbs, 1 cf, $500]. 4 Crashwebs [20 lbs, 2 cf, $400].

Environmental Systems: Environmental Control for 4 people [20 lbs, 0.4 cf, $200, 1 kW].

Power Plant: Open hydrogen fuel cell, 61 kW [330 lbs, 6.6 cf, $1,650, 7.015 gph hydrogen].

Fuel Tank: Cryogenic tank, 56.12 gallons [42.1 lbs, 8.42 cf, $1,403]. [Full of liquid hydrogen: +32.5 lbs, $5.61, Fire 11].

Access Space: 8.2 cf.

Cargo Space: 22 cf.

Empty Space: 4.78 cf.

Volume: Body (Bo) 214.5 cf, 215 sf. Wheels (Wh) 21.5 cf, 46 sf.

Structure: Light, cheap, 261 sf [587.3 lbs, $3,915].

Hit Points: Bo 161. Wh 9/17 each.

Armour: DR 5 cheap metal, everywhere [522 lbs, $522].

Surface Features: Improved Brakes [$230].

Vision: Good.

Statistics: Empty weight 1791.4 lbs. Usual payload 200 lbs to 1272.5 lbs. Loaded weight approx. 2000 lbs (1 ton) to 3070 lbs (1.54 tons). Volume 236 cf, Size +3. Structural HT 12. Cost $11,120.

Ground Performance: Top speed 105 mph to 130 mph. gAccel 5.3 to 6.5. gDecel 15. gMR 1g, gSR 4. Off-road: Speed is 1/4 if total load <2484 lbs, 1/6 otherwise. Endurance 8h, range 840 mi to 1040 mi at top speed; at cruise speed (*0.6), endurancs is 24h and range is 1512 mi to 1872 mi.

Water Performance: None.

Air Performance: Like a rock.

Space Performance: Like a rock.

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Last modified: Sun Mar 2 13:26:52 MET 1997