This is one seriously advanced experimental science kit. If you’re thinking about introducing your child to a study of some of our more renewable energy sources, you can’t go wrong with this kit. In this, one of the coolest science kits available anywhere, you get to put a basic model car together- then add a solar cell and hydrogen fuel cell to provide the power. It uses the solar cell to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. The fuel cell then uses these gases to produce electricity to actually drive the car.

The experiments in the Thames and Kosmos Fuel Cell Car range from fairly basic to very advanced, but the manual that comes with it is truly first rate. Thames and Kosmos makes some great physics and chemistry sets and this is one of their best. I wholeheartedly recommend this for the environmentally conscious parent who wants their child to learn about some of the science that we may come to rely on in their generation.