Sentences with phrase «of fuel cell cars»

Griffith says the spinout will allow the new company to access outside investors as it looks to take stakes in emerging hydrogen start - ups that could push the adoption of fuel cell cars over battery - powered electric cars.

It's potentially the future of transportation, and unlike most of the fuel cell cars out there, it doesn't look like something out of the Jetsons.

Mercedes - Benz announced that they would move the scheduled production date of their fuel cell car from 2015 up to 2014, asserting that «The product is ready for the market technically.

Despite this, several major car manufacturers have announced plans to introduce a production model of a fuel cell car in 2015.

Not exact matches

Battery - powered cars offered by the likes of Tesla are gaining traction faster than fuel cell vehicles backed by Hyundai and Toyota Motor Corp..

The new additions include three plug - in hybrid vehicles, which come on top of eight battery - powered cars and two fuel - cell vehicles.

Beyond using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel - cell cars) on the road by 2020.

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The move is designed to increase the use of zero - emissions vehicles, or ZEVs: plug - in electrics, hybrid plug - ins and hydrogen fuel cell cars.

Despite decades of research, hydrogen fuel cells have failed to replace combustion engines in cars, thanks in large part to the cost of their platinum catalysts, says Signe Kjelstrup at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.

This transformation has put new life into the development of both dedicated natural gas vehicles and fuel cell cars.

But he points out that the ethanol process also generates a lot of carbon monoxide, which the high - power fuel cells that might someday propel cars can not tolerate.

«The big question is, of course, whether it would be economically viable to create organosilane fuels in the quantities necessary to power a world full of [fuel - cell] cars,» Abu - Omar says.

Hyundai will offer the fuel - cell Tucson for lease at $ 499 per month with a $ 2,999 down payment, which includes all of the fuel and all of the service for the lifetime of the car.

While they still can't store as much total energy as a fuel cell or a battery, ultracapacitors — also known as electrochemical capacitors — can supply the burst of energy needed to accelerate up a hill or around another car on the highway.

The latest figures from the Electric Drive Transportation Association, a trade group that advocates electric, electric - hybrid and fuel - cell car technology and infrastructure, reveal a diminished share of the car market.

View slideshow The test hydrogen fuel cell — powered cars have a range of up to 200 miles (322 kilometers) per tank.

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

In the end, the driving personalities of the two test vehicles, with a few exceptions, were close enough to those of ordinary gasoline - powered cars that if buyers ultimately reject fuel - cell machines, it won't be because the cars seem unfamiliar from behind the wheel.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.

But fuel cell advocates point out that given the space available in a car frame and the laws of thermodynamics, today's batteries can only provide a limited driving range — 40 miles (65 kilometers) for GM's own Chevrolet Volt — before requiring a recharge, such as by the gasoline motor in a full hybrid like the Toyota Prius.

As part of this effort, GM has also teamed with Virgin Atlantic airlines to provide pick - up and drop - off services in fuel cell cars to first class passengers at Los Angeles International Airport starting next month.

In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

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

Many skyscrapers — and even homes — have such fuel cells today, but the prototype cars on the road — ranging from GM's fuel cell Chevy Equinox to BMW's hydrogen - burning 7 Series sedan — have proved too expensive so far to fulfill the Bush administration's dreams of a hydrogen car economy.

The fuel savings of low - emissions cars could easily pay for batteries or fuel cells.

A new type of nanocatalyst can result in the long - awaited commercial breakthrough for fuel cell cars.

Daimler began manufacturing a small series of this model in late 2009, then quickly decided to make it the first fuel cell passenger car it would mass - produce.

If this level of efficiency is possible to achieve in a fuel cell, the amount of required platinum would be comparable to what is used in an ordinary car catalytic converter.

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Those electric cars — combined with improvements in the fuel efficiency of existing internal combustion engines, new hybrid power trains and even fuel - cell vehicles — could begin to reduce the roughly $ 1 billion a day the U.S. spends on imported oil.

That amount of water takes care of that house as well as powering a fuel cell car around town.

The rule itself is technology - neutral, but the aggressive target pressures car companies to make and sell all types of electrified vehicles, a category that includes hybrids, plug - in electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles.

Researchers are making progress in producing and storing hydrogen that could power a new generation of fuel - cell cars, despite seesaw domestic funding from successive presidential administrations.

Fuel cells can power cleaner buses and cars, but key engineering and economic obstacles will delay widespread adoption of the technology

Although fleets of fuel - cell prototypes are hitting the streets, basic technical and market obstacles must be hurdled before the clean, hydrogen - powered cars reach dealer showrooms

The number of car models, where at least one variant has a combined city / highway label fuel economy of at least 30 mpg, has grown from 46 models in MY 2012 to more than 70 models in MY 2017, and the number of car models with 40 mpg or higher has more than doubled (comprised of hybrid, electric (EV), plug - in hybrid electric (PHEV), and fuel cell vehicles (FCV)-RRB-.

This is a starting point, and i am interested to know how fast is «fast - growing», i am imagining a fuel cell car with a tank of bacteria and a CO gas tank.

Valence has already modified a Prius... Marc Kohler, business development manager for Valence's vehicle systems program, says the major automakers appear to be acting disinterested, but it's not the full picture... «Publicly they have to say one thing, but R&D guys are actively researching it,» says Kohler, pointing out that high oil prices, national security issues, the fact that the technology is available, and the slow progress of fuel - cell cars has created an ideal environment for pursuing plug - in hybrids.

I urge all of you to not purchase the Honda fuel cell car or any other company's fuel cell vehicle until they do what is right and provide a fuel cell car that pulls the hydrogen from water.

AMES, Iowa — Seventeen middle school team representatives from 11 schools around Iowa converged on the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on Feb. 22 to learn about hydrogen fuel - cell technology and to build hydrogen fuel - cell model cars.

Says Jenks of Loban's help, «I'm looking at fifteen fuel - cell - car kits that cost $ 150 each, and we didn't have to pay for those.»

They use computer diagnostic equipment to fix cars, and learn the green technologies of hybrid vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells.

From the front, influences from the recent Mirai hydrogen fuel - cell car are clear, with the sharp, high - waisted lines arching even higher as you make your way to the back of the car.

This is the natural replacement for the diesel engine, which I figure should be on its deathbed thanks to Volkswagen Group's Dieselgate and the prospect for hydrogen fuel cell trucks, electrified cars, and this sort of engine, as well as Mazda's Skyactive - X Compression four - banger.

The Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel - cell vehicle offers the benefits of zero - emissions transportation with the cruising range of a gas - powered engine, eliminating the range anxiety of all - electric cars.

Perhaps it's to be expected that the B - Class has been Mercedes - Benz's vehicle of choice for developing cars powered by alternative fuels, including compressed natural gas, hydrogen fuel cell, and now battery - powered electricity.

At the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, Mercedes - Benz has debuted a fuel cell variant of the GLC - Class compact crossover that previews an upcoming production vehicle with plug - in capability, allowing owners to charge the car in addition to filling up with hydrogen.

Skip to the front of the car and you'll see what looks like a conventional engine, but is actually a combined electric motor and transmission, voltage control unit, fuel cell stack, electric air compressor, and power control unit.