In the long - term - to 2025 and beyond - the plan is for large scale electrification with potentially mass
produced hydrogen vehicles emerging later.
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
«We think that to get real zero - emission
vehicles, and that's on a well - to - wheel basis, having renewable electricity
producing the
hydrogen is really the most environmentally friendly and sustainable way to
produce hydrogen,» said Steve Szymanski, director of government business for the electrolysis system manufacturer Proton OnSite.
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.
A fuel - cell electric
vehicle works by converting
hydrogen to electricity,
producing only heat and water in the process.
Hyundai's Tucson will be the world's first mass -
produced hydrogen fuel cell
vehicle.
Clean electricity could
produce hydrogen for fuel - cell - powered
vehicles and replace on - site boilers and furnaces for residential heating.
Over the years, Easley
produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid
vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid
hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.
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.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has already certified
hydrogen vehicles as zero - emission
vehicles — they only
produce water.
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.
The current plan is to start
producing Generation 5
vehicles in 2012 or so, and to make those available probably to fleets and possibly in some limited capacity to retail buyers who live near a viable
hydrogen infrastructure.
The dead battery will likely be
producing more
hydrogen gas than the charged one, so making and breaking the connection on the charged
vehicle is safer.
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 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.
As part of a technology development partnership, Honda is in talks with General Motors to help reduce costs in
producing hydrogen fuel cell
vehicles.
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.
Hydrogen - powered vehicles are slowly hitting the streets, but mass producing, distributing and storing hydrogen is still a major ro
Hydrogen - powered
vehicles are slowly hitting the streets, but mass
producing, distributing and storing
hydrogen is still a major ro
hydrogen is still a major roadblock.
The Tri-Gen plant will
produce enough
hydrogen to power about 1,500
vehicles on an average daily use cycle (Credit: Toyota)
The Tri-Gen plant will
produce enough
hydrogen to power about 1,500
vehicles on an average daily use cycle
Why spend their time finding cheaper ways of using the solar electricity to
produce hydrogen from water and developing cheaper ways to store and compress the
hydrogen for use in
vehicles.
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);
Honda has
produced the first «commercial»
hydrogen powered
vehicle in the form of the Honda FCX Clarity, although this has limited availability.
Ultimately a plug on a
hydrogen FCV could allow the
vehicle to sell back
hydrogen produced electricity for peak power needs or provide valuable voltage regulation services through the battery to further benefit the California electric grid.
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.»