A community portal about Hydrogen vehicles with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A hydrogen vehicle is a vehicle, such as an automobile or aircraft, which uses hydrogen as its primary source of power for locomotion...
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A community portal about Hydrogen vehicles with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A hydrogen vehicle is a vehicle, such as an automobile or aircraft, which uses hydrogen as its primary source of power for locomotion. Prototypes of these vehicles generally use the hydrogen in one of two methods: combustion or fuel-cell conversion. In combustion, the hydrogen is "burned" in engines in fundamentally the same method as traditional gasoline cars. In fuel-cell conversion, the hydrogen is turned into electricity through fuel cells which then power electric motors.
A hydrogen vehicle is a vehicle that uses hydrogen as its onboard fuel for motive power. The term may refer to a personal transportation vehicle, such as an automobile, or any other vehicle that uses hydrogen in a similar fashion, such as an aircraft. The power plants of such vehicles convert the chemical energy of hydrogen to mechanical energy (torque) in one of two methods: combustion, or electrochemical conversion in a fuel-cell:
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Toyota, Nissan and Honda all participated in a fuel cell demonstration run in Japan last week. The three automakers brought their most advanced hydrogen fuel cell vehicles out for the two-day trip from Tokyo to Fukuoka with an overnight stop in Osaka. The driving teams piloted a Honda FCX Clarity, a Nissan X-Trail FCV and a Toyota Highlander FCHV-adv. Back in 2007, a Toyota FCHV traveled from Osaka...
MODC ) announced today it has introduced an additional line of On-Demand Hydrogen Generators, specially designed for the Light Truck and Vehicle Market. The LTV Model is designed for application in...
The University of Delaware's newest bus, a 22-foot, 22-seat vehicle that runs on hydrogen, tooled around downtown Wilmington on Monday, Nov. 16, carrying some very important riders. U.S. Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.), U.S. Rep. Michael N. Castle (R-Del.) and Wilmington Mayor James Baker sat inside chatting about various options for transport in the region.
At the heart of the FCX Clarity is a fuel cell stack – a device that uses an electrochemical reaction between hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) to convert chemical energy into electrical energy to power a motor that drives the car’s wheels. Honda’s FC stack simultaneously generates electricity and water, emitting no CO2 or other harmful emissions. A new dedicated fuel cell vehicle assembly line has been established for the production of FCX Clarity, which includes processes unique to a fuel cell car, such as the installation of the fuel cell stack and hydrogen tank. The f uel cell stack itself is produced at ...
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Filed under: Hydrogen , Legislation and Policy , Green Daily , USA Honda FCX Clarity - Click above for a gallery The message has been hinted at before , but the federal government is now serious about shifting the focus away from hydrogen and onto plug-in vehicles. In an important statement yesterday, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that hydrogen vehicles are still 10 to 20 years away from practicality and that millions in federal government funding for hydrogen programs will be cut from the 2010 federal budget. Chu said , “We asked ourselves, ‘Is it likely in the next 10 or 15, ...
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The much-touted “green” President, Obama, has OK’d a slash in the Department of Energy’s research funding budget for 2010. In the typical short-sightedness of government types, DoE Secretary Chu said that because “these vehicles are 10 to 20 years away,” they aren’t as imperative as battery electric technology. This despite evidence to the contrary such as Mazda ’s recent deployment of three hydrogen-fueled models, Honda ’s successful field testing of the FCX Clarity , and Toyota ’s announced commitment towards a fuel-cell model within ten years. Not to mention the proven superior pound-for-pound energy density of compressed hydrogen over battery storage. Regardless, both Honda ...
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Let’s take for example a FCV like Honda FCX Clarity, the One James May reviewed in Top Gear. The Clarity has two main parts in its drive train a normal electric motor and something known as “Fuel Cell” which provides electricity to the motor. A Fuel Cell is an electro-chemical unit which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between fuel and air. The Fuel Cell used in the Honda and other FCVs is a Hydrogen Fuel Cell. When you fuel the Honda with Hydrogen, the Fuel Cell on-board the car strikes a chemical reaction between Hydrogen and oxygen from air and creates electricity. This ...
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wo things most people don’t know: 1) internal combustion engines are only 20 to 30 percent efficient at burning their fuel. 2) vehicles normally burn two gallons of water (found in the atmosphere) per one gallon of gas. That water is in vapor form and is pulled into you engine with the air and is also used in the combustion process. The carburetors or fuel injectors (whichever you have) force the fuel also into vapor form, and all this is burned together in the cylinder chambers. The Hydrogen On Demand System uses an electrolysis process to separate water into Hydrogen and Oxygen (then a ...
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