Astris Energi Inc. (ASRNF) announced that it will be debuting Freedom II, its second generation AFC-powered Golf Car at the Vancouver Investment Conference on January 23 and 24. The new, faster Freedom II is powered by Astris’ recently completed 1.8kW, Model E7 AFC Generator, with more than double the power of the original model, which was the world’s first alkaline fuel cell powered golf car using hydrogen. The new, silent running, emission-free E7 Generator contains two 900W Astris’ POWERSTACK(tm) MC250 alkaline fuel cell stacks which provide the unit with 1.8kW nominal power with the capability to deliver a 20% overload factor that provides more than sufficient power for peak loads such as acceleration and hill climbing. [ more ]