Sentences with phrase «hydrogen cars run»

Has anyone thought about what will happen when two hydrogen cars run into each other at 70 MPH?

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«While our process is not yet optimized, we estimate that an ammonia decomposition reactor no bigger than a 2 - liter bottle will provide enough hydrogen to run a mid-range family car,» David said in a news release.

Cars running on hydrogen fuel cells produce zero emissions, but currently, factories must use fossil fuels, such as natural gas, or precious metals, such as platinum, to...

After fixing the molecular engine to the car's chassis and shining a light on it, Tour's team confirmed that the engine was running by using nuclear magnetic resonance to monitor the position of the hydrogen atoms within it.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

They compared cars that run on batteries versus hydrogen fuel cells in a hypothetical future where the cost of electric vehicles is more affordable.

Dear EarthTalk: How is it that hydrogen can replace oil to run our cars?

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.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

I am interested in how cars can reach 200 mph, how they can run on hydrogen, and how they can drive and park on their own.

The Rapide S race car is fitted with a hybrid powertrain, developed by technical partners Alset Global, which successfully completed a zero - emission lap of the Nordschleife running on pure hydrogen.

F - Cell mode runs the car strictly on hydrogen while Battery mode essentially puts the vehicle in EV mode.

In fuel cell mode, the car runs only on hydrogen propulsion, while in assist mode, the electric battery helps out the fuel cell during heavy loads.

Honda leases a handful of Honda FCX Clarity hydrogen - powered hybrids in California and sells the Civic GX, the only mass - produced car running on compressed natural gas.

Several hydrogen fuel cell cars were shown as well, including a version of the Mercedes - Benz GLC compact SUV; it also runs up to 30 miles on battery power in case the local service station isn't selling hydrogen quite yet.

The fuel cell combines the hydrogen — which has to be pumped into the vehicle and stored in a tank — with oxygen from the outside air, and uses this to generate electricity to run the car's electric motor.

Ready or not, electric vehicles and alternative - fuel vehicles are coming to California, and the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show will spotlight them next month.The 1993 show will feature nine environmentally friendly concept cars, four electric cars, four alternative - fuel vehicles and one that runs on hydrogen.

It remained BMW's only production car to run on hydrogen.

Mercedes, for example, is following Toyota's lead and looking to hydrogen as a viable solution to combat emissions and has already proven its viability with cars like the B - Class F - CELL and the Citaro FuelCELL - Hybrid — two vehicles that have logged more than seven million miles in test runs.

Even more so, there were moments when the car hit a top speed of 160 mph, while running just on hydrogen.

The federal budget introduced in March included $ 62.5 million over two years to help build the infrastructure needed to support alternative fuel vehicles, including charging stations for electric cars and refuelling stations for vehicles that run on natural gas and hydrogen.

Making Hydrogen in these ways, and using it to run an automobile has to be less efficient than the direct use of hydrocarbon fuels and electricity to run a car, and can't reduce the total amount of CO2 emissions.

The basic technology comes from Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a company that had an earlier toy car running on hydrogen.

I suspect that we will be hearing a lot more about hydrogen cars too; the fossil fuel companies might well fund a fake «hydrogen economy» because the cheapest hydrogen is made by steam reforming of natural gas; people think that this is somehow better than just running a car on CNG.

I base this view on a trip I took to Iceland a few years ago as a guest of General Motors to see how the island of glaciers and geysers use the earth's geothermal heat to convert water into hydrogen, hydrogen that runs a few demonstration fuel cell cars and buses.

We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and in pollution - free cars that run on hydrogen.

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.

The hydrogen economy can be got off the ground and running just fine with reformed natural gas, which is no more carbon intensive than electricity for battery cars is at the moment.

Plug - in hybrids or hydrogen - powered fuel cells would allow us to run our cars using renewable sources such as solar and wind, other clean and abundant sources like nuclear and even coal - preferably from power plants employing advanced clean coal technologies that I hope will soon be the norm.

As Koval points out, even though use of hydrogen in fuel cells is growing, the biggest need is for liquid fuel to run cars, trucks, trains and planes.

Hydrogen fuel cell technology allows the Honda Clarity to run on hydrogen from domestic energy sources instead of gasoline, making it one of the cleanest cars on tHydrogen fuel cell technology allows the Honda Clarity to run on hydrogen from domestic energy sources instead of gasoline, making it one of the cleanest cars on thydrogen from domestic energy sources instead of gasoline, making it one of the cleanest cars on the road.

Cars running on hydrogen will be demanding these facilities anyway hence my new found conversion to supporting FCVs.

It ain't even an energy source, and after billions of dollars of public and private research in the past 15 years — including several years running of being the single biggest focus of the DOE office on climate solutions I once ran — it still has actually no chance whatsoever of delivering a major cost - effective climate solution by midcentury (see «This just in: Hydrogen fuel cell cars are still dead»).

Dale states: ------------- Oh and if you use a MWh (million units of electricity) to produce hydrogen to run a car — you can get about 1,500 miles from it.

Oh and if you use a MWh (million thousand units of electricity) to produce hydrogen to run a car — you can get about 1,500 miles from it.