Sentences with phrase «hydrogen infrastructure»

Perhaps in the distant future when a decent hydrogen infrastructure is in place.

The carmaker realized that if its vision of battery - powered electric vehicles gaining mass appeal in tandem with fuel cell electrics was to come true, it needed to so something about the lack of hydrogen infrastructure.

Last year, Nissan announced it had joined with 12 other companies to launch FCEVs and develop hydrogen infrastructure in Japan.

Sandia's hydrogen safety, codes and standards program is a diverse portfolio of activities funded by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office to provide the technical basis for developing and revising safety codes and standards for hydrogen infrastructure, including the NFPA 2 code.

Steady advances in fuel - cell technology, new opportunities for hydrogen production and a growing commitment to building hydrogen infrastructure have led many major automakers to believe «this is the moment» for the next generation of hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles, said Mike O'Brien, vice president of product and corporate planning for Hyundai.

Other analyses cite the lack of an extensive hydrogen infrastructure in the U.S. as an ongoing challenge to Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle commercialization.

Hydrogen infrastructure remains the most critical barrier to the widespread adoption of FCEVs.

It is as close as it gets, for now, to a comprehensive network of hydrogen filling stations and will mean that Germany will have the most advanced hydrogen infrastructure in the world.

At NREL's new Energy Systems Integration Facility, capabilities such as a hose reliability testing robot and construction of additional refueling hardware will support H2FIRST's hydrogen infrastructure research needs.

These projects will continue to deploy hydrogen infrastructure across the country to support more transportation energy options for U.S. consumers, including fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs).

Major auto makers are uniting to urge governments, energy companies and other related organizations to develop an easily accessible and affordable hydrogen infrastructure to ensure the successful introduction of fuel - cell vehicles in the global marketplace by 2015.

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Whereas in Europe, there's more public and political will for both a liquid and gas hydrogen infrastructure.»

The absence of a cost estimate for the proposed hydrogen infrastructure was a striking example of the oversimplifications we believe were made.

This paper proposes an enhancement to the FCV platform that would reduce vehicle cost, increase efficiency and alleviate the consumer anxiety over a sparse hydrogen infrastructure.

Scaling up: a slow - moving process Deployment of hydrogen infrastructure to date has been slow and remains the most critical barrier to widespread adoption of FCVs.

Sandia and NREL will use the data from the validation tests to further develop codes and standards for hydrogen infrastructure.

He says, «Establishing a hydrogen infrastructure depends on an unpredictable mix of technological innovation, consumer acceptance, and government incentives.»

This statement is similar to arguments that the cost of developing a hydrogen infrastructure will prevent the fuel from gaining acceptance.

It is not the difficulty of developing a hydrogen infrastructure that will slow down acceptance of fuel cells but the desire to keep oil companies from losing customers and state and federal governments from losing gasoline tax revenues.

The province spent about $ 89 million on twenty hydrogen buses and hydrogen infrastructure for Whistler that will ferry Olympics visitors around in 2010.

Converting to ICE hydrogen vehicles means that we can get the hydrogen infrastructure and renewable hydrogen technology up and running as soon as possible, so that if and when fuel cells take over, we'll be ready for them.

Many communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells, in part because the hydrogen infrastructure provides few additional energy benefits for the community besides clean transportation.

The researchers also assessed the potential benefits of using the hydrogen infrastructure to store clean energy for use on demand.

The oil business makes enough hydrogen to fuel more than 30 million hydrogen vehicles, he notes, adding, «the petroleum industry will provide us with the hydrogen infrastructure.»

But he thinks his approach will help other pieces of the hydrogen infrastructure fall into place.

To this end, a new project launched by the Energy Department and led by Sandia National Laboratories and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work in support of H2USA, the public private partnership introduced in 2013 by the Energy Department and industry stakeholders to address the challenge of hydrogen infrastructure.

The work supported through this investment will address key early - stage technical challenges for fuel cells and for hydrogen fuel production, delivery, and storage related to hydrogen infrastructure.

NREL can provide hydrogen system integration testing at their Hydrogen Infrastructure Testing and Research Facility, located within ESIF.

Hydrogen infrastructure is even further behind, with just 13 filling stations nationwide.

With a hydrogen infrastructure in place, the more economical FCVs could leapfrog EVs in market demand, says Takeshi Uchiyamada, executive vice president - product planning and advanced technology.

Honda's Clarity Fuel Cell will go on sale in California (one of, if not the only state with any semblance of a hydrogen infrastructure) later in 2016.

With the Clarity FCV still limited to California due to hydrogen infrastructure, Honda will recoup some of the vehicle development costs by offering a more accessible plug - in hybrid version, as well as a zero - emissions EV.

It's not yet ready to hit dealerships, mostly because there's no hydrogen infrastructure, but the Germans have a plan, and this project could become feasible in five to six years.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

There is a general consensus among the experts that expansion of the hydrogen infrastructure needs to precede the mass introduction of FCVs in order to raise consumer confidence in the availability of hydrogen fuel.

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Honda is realistic about the slow growth of a hydrogen infrastructure as well as the viewpoint that fuel cells may not seem to make much sense using current methods of hydrogen production.

In California Governor Schwarzenegger decided to build a hydrogen infrastructure in anticipation of the coming fuel cell car.

It is as quiet as a kettle and produces no more emissions, but questions remain over the hydrogen infrastructure and particularly the high cost of on - board storage.

Whether or not it ever gets built will depend on how serious GM is about becoming a leader in green vehicle design; future climate legislation (namely, the price we put on carbon); hydrogen infrastructure, and how that hydrogen is made; the cost of fuel cells; and the cost of batteries.

They bleat about needing decades and # billions to perfect fuel cell technology — and with that comes the need for big new infrastructure — hydrogen infrastructure — that'll take decades too.

Right now, the focus seems to be primarily on battery electric vehicles, which require access to a charging station to «refuel,» but there's another type of electric car that could show some promise down the road a ways, the hydrogen fuel cell car, and although the hydrogen infrastructure is even less built - out than the EV charging network, one company thinks they've got a unique approach to the market, in that they don't even want to sell you the car.