Sentences with phrase «using hydrogen fuel cells»

One big change will be more and more electric cars using hydrogen fuel cells.

That means using hydrogen fuel cells, battery - driven electric motors, a one - speed automatic transmission, and a lightweight body of steel, aluminum, and carbon fiber.

Where Tesla uses batteries in its powertrain technology, Phoenix - based Nikola uses hydrogen fuel cells.

Finally, Charge mode enables the car to use the hydrogen fuel cell system to act as a generator that charges the battery.

[23][24][25][26] The Fine - S uses a hydrogen fuel cell electric hybrid system which drives four independent electric motors - one in each wheel.

The Fine - N uses a hydrogen fuel cell electric hybrid system which drives four independent 25 kW electric motors - one in each wheel.

It uses a hydrogen fuel cell to power electric motors on the front and rear axles, and according to Audi, offers 372.8 miles of range.

Using hydrogen fuel cell technology, the Mirai converts hydrogen to electricity, which is then used to power an electric motor.

For power, the LF - FC uses hydrogen fuel cell to power the rear wheels, and sends power to electric hub motors in the front to provide all - wheel drive.

Like the Honda FCX Clarity, the Hyundai uses a hydrogen fuel cell to generate electricity to feed its electric motor.

Using hydrogen fuel cell technology, the FCX Clarity produces electricity in a very efficient manner using Honda's revolutionary new fuel cell stack.

Not exact matches

But like many other, overly optimistic hydrogen - based fuel entrepreneurs, Dean, whose company made a specialized membrane that was to be used in the fuel - cell modules, watched the ground open beneath his feet as the commercial take - up proved to be far slower than anyone anticipated.

While fuel - cell vehicles are available on the market currently, they aren't used commonly right now because it is complicated to recharge the hydrogen fuel cells, says Rinebold.

Solid oxide fuel cells that can use conventional fossil fuels as well as hydrogen are set to take a larger role in the energy game

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

But he also advocates starting work on hydrogen technology because in the long run fuel - cell vehicles that use «clean» hydrogen would reduce emissions.

Scientists are also investigating the possibility of using high - temperature nuclear reactors to make hydrogen for fuel cells.

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.

The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the energy they need, and then some.

Using sunlight to create fuels (such as hydrogen on the other electrode in this solar cell) with inexpensively prepared electrodes may provide a solution to the intermittency drawback of solar energy.

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

AN EDIBLE material that can be made from kitchen ingredients could be used to store hydrogen for use in fuel - cell cars.

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.

Research led by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Merced aim at bringing down the cost of hydrogen fuel cells by using a dirt - cheap compound to create an uneven surface that resembles a plant's leaves.

At night the hydrogen and oxygen could be used by a fuel cell to generate electricity.

The engineers were able to work around the hydrogen storage problem by using non-polluting Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells and a process of aluminum activation patented by the paper's co-authors, Prof. Alon Gany and Dr. Valery Rosenband.

Fuel Cells Electricity from any source, such as solar, wind and even coal, can be used to break up water molecules into their hydrogen and oxygen components in a device called an electrolyzer.

«Unlike other fuel cells which transport positively charged [hydrogen, or H +,] ions through a membrane, solid oxide types use a ceramic oxide — through which negatively charged oxygen ions pass,» Stokes explains.

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.

Whereas airships harnessed hydrogen's buoyancy, the Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell, an SUV, uses it to make electricity.

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.

He added that using solar cells and abundantly available elements to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has enormous potential for reducing the cost of hydrogen production and that the approach could eventually replace the current method, which relies on fossil fuels.

All over the world researchers are investigating solar cells which imitate plant photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to create synthetic fuels such as hydrogen.

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Fuel cells convert chemical energy into electrical energy using hydrogen and oxygen — with water as the only product.

An M.I.T. researcher thinks he's found a way to efficiently use solar power to drive the electrolysis of water, which would isolate hydrogen for fuel cells.

Scientific American's 2006 researcher of the year, M.I.T.'s Angela Belcher, has engineered a virus so that it captures light energy and uses it to catalyze the splitting of water, a first step in a possible new way to generate hydrogen for fuel cells.

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We meant to say «using solar energy to split water to provide hydrogen for fuel cells».

In the early 2000s, Maria's group had pioneered the single - atom approach for metals anchored on oxide supports as the exclusive active sites for the water - gas shift reaction to upgrade hydrogen streams for fuel cell use.

Results of the investigation have numerous uses in the field of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as well as the chemical industry, as this new method is capable of generating hydrogen from methane gas and electricity in just one step and with near - zero energy loss.

«Gas storage materials can be used in a range of applications, including gas sensors and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,» says Professor Baek.

The new, warm fuel cell marries a solid electrolyte, such as those found in solid - oxide cells, with the hydrogen - ion conduction used in polymer - electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells.

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.

So far, lack of an inexpensive and stable catalyst has limited widespread, economical use of hydrogen fuel cells (HFCs).

One of the most promising ideas for storing renewable energy is to use the excess electricity generated from renewables to split water into oxygen and hydrogen; the hydrogen can then be fed into fuel - cell vehicles.

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory catalysis scientists Dr. Wendy Shaw and Dr. Monte Helm led a workshop on hydrogenase mimics, important components of fuel cells that catalyze hydrogen production and use.

Methods: Scientists has been developing molecular electrocatalysts for the oxidation of hydrogen, a common process in fuel cells, which could use hydrogen fuel created from renewable energy.