Sentences with phrase «powered hydrogen vehicles»

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Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

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 company is also making a big bet on hydrogen - powered cars, even though the infrastructure for these vehicles does not really exist in the US yet.

Ford had initially planned to reveal its own hydrogen car in 2017, but CTO Raj Nair told Business Insider that the company has pushed back the timeline for its reveal to focus on battery - powered vehicles.

Far more importantly, the shift from the internal combustion engine to electric, hybrid or hydrogen - powered vehicles may be the most important technological and social development since, well, the automobile first appeared.

Another type of vehicle will be added to the growing roster of energy - efficient transportation methods, with Nikola Motor Company's forthcoming Nikola One, a hydrogen - powered long haul semi-truck unveiled Thursday, Dec. 1, at its headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Mississauga, Ontario - headquartered Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology and hydrogen fuel cell systems, today announced that it has received an order valued at C$ 7.8 million to supply fuel cell power systems for zero - emission vehicles in China.

The next generation of fuel is available here — Harris Ranch Inn and Restaurant offers a FirstElement fuel station for hydrogen - powered FCEV vehicles.

The hydrogen option has evoked conflicting assessments of feasibility, and no one expects to see hydrogen - powered vehicles hit the road in significant numbers within a decade.

I find it difficult to understand why people are insisting that electric and hydrogen - powered vehicles must be made to sound like petrol and diesel - powered ones (Feedback, 1 October).

Japanese car - maker Honda has unveiled a hydrogen - powered concept vehicle that it says represents the future of emissions - free driving.

Hydrogen - powered vehicles could cut carbon emissions, but storing the volatile gas on board is a challenge.

Burned or used in fuel cells, hydrogen is an appealing option for powering future automotive vehicles for several reasons.

I find it difficult to understand why people are insisting that electric and hydrogen - powered vehicles must be made to sound...

The work, which appears in the November 27, 2014, edition of Science Express, points to new avenues for producing single - site supported gold catalysts that could produce high - grade hydrogen for cleaner energy use in fuel - cell powered devices, including vehicles.

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.

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.

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A glide path would mirror the European model, which brought players together years ago to effectively select «clean diesel» as the vehicle of the near future, at least until hydrogen - powered or electric plug - in vehicles develop.

Clean electricity could produce hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles and replace on - site boilers and furnaces for residential heating.

«Our process also has an important advantage over battery or gaseous - hydrogen powered vehicle technologies as many of the hydrocarbon products from our reaction are exactly what we use in cars, trucks and planes, so there would be no need to change the current fuel distribution system,» said Frederick MacDonnell, UTA interim chair of chemistry and biochemistry and co-principal investigator of the project.

The two - way system could store energy as hydrogen to back up intermittent solar or wind power installations and even the Solar Eagle, a dragonflylike unmanned aerial vehicle that is to fly multiyear missions.

Unlike gasoline - powered vehicles, which emit carbon dioxide (CO2,), hydrogen cars themselves are emissions free.

Reducing the platinum in fuel - cell catalysts could help bring hydrogen - powered vehicles to the mass market

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

The unlikely material may one day compete with more high - tech solutions such as carbon nanotubes for storing hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered vehicles.

«Safe new storage method could be key to future of hydrogen - powered vehicles.»

Steffen Møller - Holst at SINTEF Energy Research believes that battery - powered vehicles will play a very important role in the emission - free transport of the future, but that this will happen in combination with hybrids, rechargeable hybrids and hydrogen - powered vehicles.

As a zero - emission fuel, the hydrogen can be recombined with oxygen to produce electric power on demand, such as onboard a fuel - cell vehicle.

The aim now for Daimler and its allies is to ensure that the number of fuel - cell powered vehicles running on generatively produced hydrogen is constantly increasing, demonstrating the market maturity of the fuel cell solution.

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.

Unlike battery - powered electric vehicles, fuel - cell powered ones have a long cruising range — up to 650 kilometers per tank (the fuel is usually compressed hydrogen gas); a hydrogen fuel refill only takes about three minutes.

The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen - powered fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.

Long has been exploring MOFs as gas adsorbers for a decade, hoping to use them to capture carbon dioxide emitted from power plants or store hydrogen in hydrogen - fueled vehicles, or to catalyze gas reactions for industry.

Last year, General Motors and Honda announced plans to jointly develop hydrogen fuel cell cars, and Hyundai will lease its Tucson Fuel Cell hydrogen - powered vehicle in California this spring.

A practical hydrogen tank should power a vehicle for 300 miles and take less than 5 minutes to fill; current technology does not come close.

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

However, hydrogen fuel cell powered electric vehicles suffer from a refueling problem.

The Ames Laboratory's diverse research accomplishments in biofuels production, hydrogen storage, and high - performance magnets power the alternative fuel vehicles of today and the ones down the road to the future.

Those tests will determine hydrogen - powered vehicles» viability on the battlefield.

GM says its 119 - vehicle hydrogen test fleet has racked up 3.1 million miles on fuel cell power.

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

Said to be acting as a test bed for new technology, the fuel cell car is a precursor to mass production hydrogen powered vehicles, which BMW says could arrive by 2020.

He adds that cost and all performance features must be on a par with those of gasoline - powered vehicles, but that point will not be reached until «full - fledged mass production begins in 2025, after a hydrogen refueling infrastructure is in place.

Discover the impressive plug - in hybrid, electric and hydrogen fuel cell - powered vehicles.

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.

Mercedes says the GLC F - Cell provides around 31 miles of range on battery power alone, which means most owners could go long periods of time without depending on the vehicle's hydrogen equation.

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.

There's also a Hybrid mode that allows the GLC F - Cell to utilize both the battery and hydrogen fuel cell to power the vehicle.