Sentences with phrase «by hydrogen fuel cells»

To actually stop the growth of oil imports and potentially even reduce consumption, automakers have focused on developing cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

There are now three different vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells on sale in California, and we've driven them all.

This also includes developing alternative - fuel vehicles like the FCX Clarity, which is powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

The Intrado is powered by Hydrogen fuel cells and the car is the Korean company's vision for meeting future

So the new concept receives an innovative four - wheel drive transmission, in which each wheel is fitted with an individual electric motor powered by hydrogen fuel cells to ensure zero emissions — only water comes from the exhaust system.

Electric vehicles, powered by hydrogen fuel cells, provide the demanded driving range and low environmental impact.

Automobiles powered by hydrogen fuel cells are often lampooned as the cars of the future — and they always will be.

The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Supporting a rail system powered by hydrogen fuel cells, for example, would require an entirely new infrastructure because hydrogen, being a small molecule, would leak through existing pipelines.

And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the vehicles will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.

The i8's carbonfibre construction remains, but the petrol - electric hybrid system in the current generation road car has been reapleced by a hydrogen fuel cell.

BMW has released details on an i8 research vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell.

Mercedes GLC F - Cell, the first premium SUV and the first production Benz powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology, was launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Green motoring saw a few newcomers, like this Volkswagen e-Golf EV... a fuel cell concept from Honda... and a very real 2015 Hyundai Tucson, also powered by hydrogen fuel cell.

The Hyundai N 2025 is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and the total output of the vehicle is 884 PS!

That concept was supposedly powered by a hydrogen fuel cell — technology that is a decade or two away — but its exterior styling was pleasantly swoopy and purposeful for a big sport ute.

Based on the current GLC, it is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell stack, while in urban traffic a electric motor provides the drive, which must be recharged at the outlet for a maximum of 50 kilometers.

The Clarity will be powered by a hydrogen fuel cell stack — running along the car's center tunnel between the front seats — that generates electricity but produces zero exhaust emissions at the tailpipe.

Not exact matches

Honda established a division late last year to develop electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its long - held goal for lower - emission gasoline hybrids, plug - in hybrids, EVs and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) to account for two - thirds of its line - up by 2030, from about 5 percent now.

Recently, Toyota executives were said to be working on hydrogen fuel cells, a technology ridiculed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who calls them «fool cells.»

Electric vehicle and hydrogen fuel cell technologies are dominated by the US, Germany and Japan - and are in any case estimated to be around 20 - 30 years away commercially.

A new water splitter powered by a single AAA battery could reduce the carbon pollution created from making hydrogen fuel cells, scientists report August 22 in Nature Communications.

After decades of testing, automakers are expected to put 50,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the roads in California by 2017, according to Dunwoody.

And on a different technological track, hydrogen - powered fuel - cell cars — powered by devices Musk has publicly called «fools cells» — are beginning to enter the market, led by Japanese automakers.

And if hydrogen is fed into a fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].

A fuel - cell electric vehicle works by converting hydrogen to electricity, producing only heat and water in the process.

Research led by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Merced aim at bringing down the cost of hydrogen fuel cells by using a dirt - cheap compound to create an uneven surface that resembles a plant's leaves.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Hydrogen is another attractive by - product of wastewater, and some of Logan's research at Penn State involves looking into how to capture hydrogen to run fueHydrogen is another attractive by - product of wastewater, and some of Logan's research at Penn State involves looking into how to capture hydrogen to run fuehydrogen to run fuel cells.

At night the hydrogen and oxygen could be used by a fuel cell to generate electricity.

The engineers were able to work around the hydrogen storage problem by using non-polluting Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells and a process of aluminum activation patented by the paper's co-authors, Prof. Alon Gany and Dr. Valery Rosenband.

A fuel cell converts chemical energy into electricity by reacting hydrogen and oxygen at two different electrodes.

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

This fuel cell converts hydrogen into electricity by oxygen - ion migration to fuel electrode through an oxide electrolyte.

Nor is the Chevrolet Equinox the first fuel cell vehicle General Motors (GM) has ever produced: The 1966 Electrovan, an unwieldy and prohibitively expensive fuel cell van that never made it out of the lab, was the first of about 40 or so hydrogen - fueled vehicles that have been built by the U.S. carmaker.

Unfortunately, the other great hope for vehicles that exhaust no carbon — those powered by hydrogen - fed fuel cells — remains too pricey for broad sales.

Producing electricity in a hydrogen fuel cell has one by - product: water.

Sandia leads a number of other hydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hhydrogen research efforts, including the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hHydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project co-led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a maritime fuel cell demonstration, a development project focused on hydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hhydrogen - powered forklifts and a recent study of how many California gas stations can safely store and dispense hydrogenhydrogen.

Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Offfuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies OffFuel Cell Technologies Office.

A consortium of partners headed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories is looking to integrate a portable hydrogen fuel cell unit into the operations of Younger Brothers Ltd., the primary shipper of goods throughout the Hawaiian Islands.

They concluded that we'd lower greenhouse gas emissions more by driving gasoline / electric hybrid cars than by driving fuel cell cars run on hydrogen from coal.

The programs are supported by Germany's National Innovation Program for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology.

Daimler's plans to start mass - producing fuel cell vehicles next year were severely limited by the lack of public hydrogen filling stations in Germany.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliaFueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliafueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

By focusing on these aspects of the hydrogen fueling infrastructure, the effort hopes to accelerate and support the widespread deployment of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

«We think H2FIRST can help improve the path for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles by creating opportunities for private industry to pool their resources to address infrastructure needs,» said Sandia's Dedrick.

At present, the implementation of hydrogen fuel cells is being hindered by the high material costs of platinum.

A new report on fuel cell vehicles from IHS Automotive forecasts that global production of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) will reach more than 70,000 vehicles annually by 2027, as more automotive OEMs bring FCEVs to market.

The Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) will present a series of three live webinars to describe the capabilities in each of the water splitting pathways being covered by FCTO's HydroGEN consortium.