The UKM Fuel Cell Car team consists of 11 engineering students. There are 3 students from the mechanical engineering department and the other 8 are from chemical engineering department. Our team advisor is Prof. Ir. Dr. Haji Wan Ramli Wan Daud. In the beginning, the team consisted only of 8 students where all of these students are from chemical engineering department. The team added 3 more talented members from mechanical department because there were not enough skill especially for the mechanical part of the car. Briefly, Kencana, which is the name given to the car, is made from aluminium for the chassis and fibre glass for the body of the car.The choice of the material is depends of strength and weight. The name of Kencana is inspired from our advisor. Kencana which bring the meaning of gold, meant to represent the quality of car built is very high value of every aspects such as safety, efficiency of energy use and attractive appearance to show the elements of gold through the gold colour. This prototype concept car is moved by electrical energy which is produced from hydrogen gas flowing through the fuel cell to generate electric current that drives the motor. Besides, alternative energy is also used like batteries and supercapacitor for theother systems available on the car such as the horn and lights.
Kencana has many advantages that enable for our team to achieve success in Sepang. One of the advantages of Kencana is the aerodynamic body design and light weight allows Kencana to move faster thus saving more energy. Besides, the cells that were used is zero emission fuel cell where there is no harmful gaseous release such as carbon dioxide. The motor used to move Kencana is mounted directly on the wheel. Lastly, the handling system used are based on go kart handling system enable Kencana be easily controlled to avoid the accident happened on the day of the competition.
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