Sentences with phrase «producing hydrogen fuel cells»

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.

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Fuel cells produce hydrogen, store it and then convert it into electricity.

Toronto - based Hydrogenics, for example, produces fuel cells that convert hydrogen into clean electricity.

Both companies produce fuel cells that convert hydrogen into clean electricity and nearly half of Ballard's sales now come from China, as the country adds hydrogen - fuelled electric buses to its roads.

Cars running on hydrogen fuel cells produce zero emissions, but currently, factories must use fossil fuels, such as natural gas, or precious metals, such as platinum, to...

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 cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers tFuel cells are far greener than gas - powered engines because they produce electricity without burning up the hydrogen (or other fuel) that powers tfuel) that powers them.

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.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Although the catalyst does produce oxygen from water, it does not produce hydrogen gas (H2) that can be burnt in a fuel cell.

Currently, electrolyzers (machines that split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen) need a catalyst, namely platinum, to run; ditto fuel cells to recombine that hydrogen with oxygen, which produces electricity.

«Hydrogen produced onboard the aircraft during flight can be channeled to a fuel cell for electrical energy generation,» said lead researcher Dr. Shani Elitzur of the Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering.

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

It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.

Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.

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.

Producing electricity in a hydrogen fuel cell has one by - product: water.

Professor Edwards added: «Instead of burning fossil fuels, leading to CO2, we use them to generate hydrogen, which with fuel cells produces electric power and pure 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.

If you do hydrogen evolution, producing hydrogen from water, that's water electrolysis, which produces clean hydrogen for fuel cells and other applications.»

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.

If we can engineer cells to produce hydrogen or butane or butanol — something that is a clean fuel — you could do that locally in conjunction with fuel cells.

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.

A new water splitter, which produces hydrogen for fuel cells, works without requiring fossil fuels or precious metals.

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 poHydrogen 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 pohydrogen will be zero - emission, an important factor given the need to reduce air pollution.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

The fuel cell ran on hydrogen for several days at a favorable 160ºC, although it produced just 1 % as much energy as existing fuel cells.

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.

Hydrogen - powered fuel cells are regarded as a clean alternative to conventional combustion engines, as, aside from electric energy, the only substance produced during operation is water.

At the time, Nocera's group focused on using the captured hydrogen as a chemical fuel, which can either be burned directly or run through a device called a fuel cell to produce electricity.

Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising green energy solution, producing electricity much more efficiently and cleanly than combustion engines.

Because a fuel cell is rechargeable, the catalyst also «charges» the fuel cell by producing hydrogen.

Energy is generated through fuel cells powered with hydrogen collected from phytohydrogen generators (genetically enhanced algal cultures that produce the element as a by - product) and with solar - collector hydrogen generators.

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.

There are two carbon - fiber fuel tanks to hold 5 kilograms of hydrogen at 10,000 psi, a fuel cell to produce electricity through the processing of hydrogen, a pack of affordable, reliable nickel - metal - hydride batteries to store the electricity, and a 113 - kW (151 - hp) motor to power the front - wheel - drive platform.

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 purpoCell, 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 purpocell vehicles yet established for testing purposes.

The sounds from the air blower's turbine that spins at around 200,000 rpm, the unique frequency of fuel cell stacks, the purging sound from the hydrogen cooling system and the high - pitched in - wheel motor sound harmoniously combine to produce a distinct race car rumble, further thrilling the driver.

The «Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo» concept, inspired by the passion of N, will be coming exclusively to PlayStation ®'s Gran Turismo video game series The Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo's powertrain is based on world's first mass - produced Hyundai hydrogen fuel cell system, highlighting Hyundai Motor's passion for performance and sustainability.

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.

Plug Power focuses on A fuel cell which is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity and heat.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.