Though the story begins
with hydrogen fuel cell cars from Honda, it quickly moves on to the plug - in cars that will arrive years or decades sooner.
Not exact matches
And if
hydrogen is fed into a
fuel - cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20
fuel -
cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric car or truck with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20
cell stack — a batterylike device that generates electricity from
hydrogen and oxygen — it can propel an electric
car or truck
with only water and heat as by - products [see «On the Road to
Fuel - Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20
Fuel -
Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 20
Cell Cars,» by Steven Ashley; Scientific American, March 2005].
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying
with next - generation hybrid
car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric
car of the future.
From the front, influences from the recent Mirai
hydrogen fuel -
cell car are clear,
with the sharp, high - waisted lines arching even higher as you make your way to the back of the
car.
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.
At the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, Mercedes - Benz has debuted a
fuel cell variant of the GLC - Class compact crossover that previews an upcoming production vehicle
with plug - in capability, allowing owners to charge the
car in addition to filling up
with hydrogen.
If those
cars and the Tucson
Fuel Cell are successful, expect to see even more automakers experimenting
with hydrogen - powered
cars over the coming years.
Yet this hasn't deterred a growing number of automakers from pouring vast amounts of money into the development of
hydrogen fuel -
cell technology, which can provide a
car with range commensurate
with conventional gasoline - engine models while emitting nothing but water in the form of steam.
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It represents a new generation of concept
car with electric hybrid propulsion where electricity is generated from
hydrogen and oxygen (air) in a Toyota designed
fuel cell.
The
fuel cell combines the
hydrogen — which has to be pumped into the vehicle and stored in a tank —
with oxygen from the outside air, and uses this to generate electricity to run the
car's electric motor.
It sucks in Air thru a Throttle like a Gas Powered
car but this Air goes into a
Fuel Cell and mixes
with Hydrogen Fuel where the Mix makes lots of electricity.
Proposals are various, and permitted along
with pure EVs could possibly be hybrids, plug - in hybrids or
hydrogen fuel cell cars, but the end goal is zero emissions and no more non «electrified» vehicles.
That
car's batteries, which were mounted low down to create the best possible centre of gravity, will be replaced
with hydrogen fuel cells.
[37] The Alfa Romeo MiTo
Fuel Cell car uses a Nuvera
Fuel Cell stack combined
with a compact Li - ion traction battery pack to supply power to the electric motor; vehicle has top speed of 150 km / h (93 mph) and can accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers in 10 seconds,
with hydrogen consumption of 3.2 liters diesel equivalent / 100 km (74 mpg US) and a range of 450 kilometers (280 miles) in NEDC, thanks to 700 bar H2 tanks.»
Mercedes is no stranger to
hydrogen driven
cars,
with the small series B - Class already available in certain markets and the
fuel cell Mercedes - Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion Concept shining last year at the Detroit motor show.
Maserati plans to place a Hybrid - only strategy and perhaps
hydrogen fuel -
cell vehicles, but they have ruled out electric
cars according to CEO Harald Wester in an invertview
with Motor Trend.
The concept
car introduced at the 2017 New York International Show in April is swoopy and sporty,
with two rows and a
hydrogen fuel cell for propulsion.
So
with Hyundai already in the
hydrogen car business, the Hyundai Intrado
fuel cell concept could well see the light of day.
Billed as rolling laboratory for the sort of driveline technology Mercedes expects to include on its luxury
cars in the not - too - distant future, the big
hydrogen - powered
car gets an advanced
fuel cell that, in theory, is capable of providing it
with the performance to beat even the most powerful of today's S - class coupe models, the S600, while endowing it
with zero - emission performance.
Although the dominant type of energy storage in today's electric
cars is lithium - ion batteries, not every
car company is going in that direction, as Toyota demonstrates
with its continued push for a different technology —
hydrogen fuel cells.
A series of 37 «eco-billboards» touting the fact that the Mirai's «only emission is water» (at least at the proverbial tailpipe, as there are definitely emissions other than water associated
with hydrogen fuel cells and any new
car) will be installed
with Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, and these billboards are said to remove nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the air.
Most auto makers agree that
fuel -
cell cars powered by
hydrogen produced
with renewable energy sources are the end game since they would rely on no fossil
fuels and emit only pure water.
Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid
cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive
hydrogen fuel cells.»
As
with hybrids, electric and
hydrogen fuel cell cars will proliferate and come down in price.
Hydrogen is the fuel of choice for the fuel cell engines that automakers worldwide are working on and, if push comes to shove on the climate front, cars with gasoline - burning internal combustion engines can be converted to h
Hydrogen is the
fuel of choice for the
fuel cell engines that automakers worldwide are working on and, if push comes to shove on the climate front,
cars with gasoline - burning internal combustion engines can be converted to
hydrogenhydrogen.
The original excitement about
fuel cell cars, many decades ago, came from the idea that we could electrolyze water
with electricity from low carbon sources like nuclear, solar, and wind, to make pure
hydrogen to burn in the
fuel cells.
This is a similar approach to the one Honda took
with the FCX Clarity
hydrogen fuel cell car, and BMW
with the electric Mini E.
DEC's rebates for municipalities complement Governor Cuomo's Drive Clean Rebate initiative, which provides New York residents
with rebates of up to $ 2,000 for the purchase of a new plug - in hybrid electric
car, all - electric
car, or
hydrogen fuel cell car.
Then you can use it in
fuel cells in your own home to create the electricity you need on demand or
fuel your
hydrogen powered
car with it... no more grid losses... no more black outs... no more gas stations... no more oil imports.
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