Most aftermarket super-chargers, turbo kits and modified fuel delivery systems are illegal in New York.
Providers of such services as fuel delivery, carpentry and landscaping pay a fee to be on the agency's referral list.
If the Renda reaches Nome, it would be making the first maritime fuel delivery through sea ice in Alaska history.
"The end product can be transported alongside petrol in fuel delivery lorries and deposited at petrol stations just like today's conventional fuels".
The fuel delivery system, as described by John Schult, an engineer who worked on the project in the early 1980s, was something of a Rube Goldberg contraption.
Steve Crawley, the product marketing manager, says that a larger system using pumps for fuel delivery is needed for cells that can power notebook-sized products.
Besides shutting down the engine when the vehicle stops, eAssist also can shut off fuel delivery while the car decelerates under certain conditions, an additional fuel-saving measure.
Liquid hydrogen has to be kept at –253°C and the area around the nozzle must be sealed to prevent the volatile fluid from evaporating during fuel delivery.
The engine can also cut fuel delivery to cylinders under highway cruising to achieve a claimed 23 miles per gallon in mixed driving.
The pressure sensor attached to the engine's fuel delivery line could come loose, causing the fuel to leak, Ms. Hashimoto said.
"If you want to paralyze a region as we've seen, just stop the fuel delivery for two days," he said at a news briefing on Friday.
