Hyundai's Tucson will be the world's first mass -
produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.
As part of a technology development partnership, Honda is in talks with General Motors to help reduce costs in
producing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Not exact matches
The group found that although
fuel -
cell vehicles would
produce zero greenhouse - gas emissions during use, the extraction and refinement of
hydrogen fuel would release three to five times as much carbon into the air as is released in procuring and refining gasoline and diesel.
Fuel cell vehicles produce zero tailpipe emissions, but the entire
hydrogen production stream needs to be low - carbon
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.
A
fuel -
cell electric
vehicle works by converting
hydrogen to electricity,
producing only heat and water in the process.
Clean electricity could
produce hydrogen for
fuel -
cell - powered
vehicles and replace on - site boilers and furnaces for residential heating.
Nor is the Chevrolet Equinox the first
fuel cell vehicle General Motors (GM) has ever
produced: The 1966 Electrovan, an unwieldy and prohibitively expensive
fuel cell van that never made it out of the lab, was the first of about 40 or so
hydrogen -
fueled vehicles that have been built by the U.S. carmaker.
Geologic storage of
hydrogen gas could make it possible to
produce and distribute large quantities of
hydrogen fuel for the growing
fuel cell electric
vehicle market, the researchers concluded.
Should the market demands for
hydrogen fuel increase with the introduction of
fuel cell electric
vehicles, the U.S. will need to
produce and store large amounts of cost - effective
hydrogen from domestic energy sources, such as natural gas, solar and wind, said Daniel Dedrick, Sandia
hydrogen program manager.
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.
Two main hurdles stand in the way of mass production and widespread consumer adoption of
hydrogen «
fuel cell»
vehicles: the still high cost of
producing fuel cells, and the lack of a
hydrogen refueling network.
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.
Daimler's plans to start mass -
producing fuel cell vehicles next year were severely limited by the lack of public
hydrogen filling stations in Germany.
Hydrogen is clean - burning, producing only water vapor as waste, so fuel - cell vehicles using hydrogen will be zero - emission, an important factor given the need to reduce air po
Hydrogen is clean - burning,
producing only water vapor as waste, so
fuel -
cell vehicles using
hydrogen will be zero - emission, an important factor given the need to reduce air po
hydrogen will be zero - emission, an important factor given the need to reduce air pollution.
While the current land speed record for a non-production
fuel -
cell vehicle stands at 286 mph, and the record for a production - style
hydrogen vehicle is 207 mph, the Tucson is the fastest mass -
produced vehicle.
Available for lease in selected countries, it was followed by the B - Class F -
Cell, of which some 200 examples were produced between 2011 and 2017 in what is described as the largest fleet of hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles yet established for testing purpo
Cell, of which some 200 examples were
produced between 2011 and 2017 in what is described as the largest fleet of
hydrogen fuel -
cell vehicles yet established for testing purpo
cell vehicles yet established for testing purposes.
Lastly Mercedes may also preview a
hydrogen fuel -
cell vehicle that is based on the current B - class, which could be
produced in 2010.
Hyundai's next - generation
fuel cell vehicle previews the company's second commercially
produced hydrogen model and is equipped with Hyundai's fourth generation of
hydrogen fuel cell technology.
Although it's just a concept, Nissan says the TeRRA demonstrates the company is ready to mass
produce fuel cell vehicles when
hydrogen becomes more available.
According to Jaguar's point man in the development of the I - Pace EV SUV, the whole process of
producing hydrogen and them compressing and cooling them for use in a
fuel cell vehicle is a lot less efficient compared to outrightly using electric energy.
We now know the cost of
producing and delivering
hydrogen for use in
Fuel Cell vehicles (FCVs) is exorbitant, and should preclude the use of FCVs.
Producing hydrogen and oxygen by the electrolysis of water (the
hydrogen could later be used to power clean
fuel -
cell vehicles, oxygen has many uses);
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?
A more certain method of reducing global arming caused by both fossil -
fuel soot and carbon dioxide is to convert
vehicles from fossil
fuels to electric, plug - in hybrid or
hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, where the electricity or
hydrogen is
produced by a renewable energy sources [sic], such as wind, solar geothermal, hydroelectric, wave, or tidal power.»