Almost two hundred and sixty-eight cubic meters.
This is the volume of air purified during the endurance record set last December by a Hyundai Nexo on the Val Thorens ice circuit.
This corresponds to a CO2 saving of 26.5 kg and the daily breathing of nearly 18 adults.
At the wheel of this hydrogen-powered SUV shod with studded tires at the front and thermo rubber at the rear, endurance driver Adrien Tambay, son of the former Formula 1 champion, covered 190 laps in six hours, a distance of 152 km, of the Alpine circuit on the way to becoming a center of excellence for the technologies of the future.
The Nexo will have consumed 3.1 kg of hydrogen per 100 km.
Its tank holds 6.3 kg.
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