Not exact matches
If station developers and others take a more performance - based approach, he said, more existing
fueling facilities will be able to integrate
hydrogen systems and support the developing
fuel -
cell electric
vehicle market.
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.
In the meantime,
if you want to see full - size
hydrogen - powered
vehicles in action, take a trip to Reykjavík or Stuttgart: In 2001 the European Union ordered
fuel cells for 30 bus engines from the Canadian company Ballard Power Systems.
So, what
if all transportation
vehicles / engines currently using diesel, petrol / gasoline, LPG, or Natural gas were over-time progressively converted to either purely rechargeable EVs or
Hydrogen Fuel Cell EVs or
Hydrogen Fueled HICEVs or HYBRID rechargeable EVs combined with
Hydrogen Fuel Cell / HICEVs between 2030 to 2050 across the entire world?
If privately - owned
fuel cell vehicles were to be capable of being readily refueled, this would require reformers (equipment capable of reforming, say, natural gas into
hydrogen) to be located at filling stations, and would also require natural gas to be available there as a
hydrogen feed - stock.
If not, then
hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will probably be available.
There is one problem with that:
If we can make enough clean electricity (via solar or something else) to produce
hydrogen for
fuel cell vehicles, why not use that electricity directly in electric
vehicles or plug - in hybrids with extremely long battery range, and an internal combustion engine that runs on biofuel for extended trips?