This startup is fuel-injecting hydrogen to make cargo ships more efficient
It’s one the most iconic scenes in the Fast & Furious film franchise: Paul Walker’s thumb comes off the steering wheel and smashes a small red button, pumping nitrous oxide into the engine of his Mitsubishi Eclipse and giving the car an explosive boost.
This is not exactly how the hydrogen-injection system developed by a startup called Newlight works on cargo ships. In fact, the company’s system uses compressed hydrogen fuelto boost efficiency — not to beat Vin Diesel. But it’s an analogy that’s proved to be useful for co-founder Evyatar Cohen.
“Instead of getting power, we actually say to the engine: ‘Hey, reduce the fuel [flow] to the engine, we don’t need as much because we have some nitrous. It’s [just] called hydrogen,’” he told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview.
The small team based in the San Francisco Bay Area has developed this hydrogen injection system as a...
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