In most hydrogen fuel cell cars a high power fuel cell and motor combination provide propulsion in place of an internal combustion engine.
Hydrogen fuel cell cars.
It concedes that.
Honda s clarity fuel cell is the only hydrogen powered vehicle available new that isn t built on a purpose designed platform.
The tanks came out of the tests undamaged and no hydrogen leaked.
The hydrogen internal combustion car is a slightly modified version of the traditional gasoline internal combustion engine car.
It shares its body and interior with the hybrid variant of the.
Fuel cell cars themselves are more expensive to purchase new and the hydrogen fuel costs work out to roughly 5 60 a gallon today according to the california fuel cell partnership.
As rücker emphasizes numerous crash tests have confirmed the safety of how hydrogen cars are designed.
Hydrogen fuel cell technology is an.
The fuel cell process of converting hydrogen back to electricity is only 60 efficient after which you have the same 5 loss from driving the vehicle motor as for a bev.
The main difference is the exhaust product.
This is because in hydrogen fuel cell cars the hydrogen is stored in liquid form in thick walled tanks that are particularly safe.
Fuel cell powertrains are much more efficient at getting energy out of hydrogen than traditional cars are at getting energy out of gasoline or diesel.
These hydrogen engines burn fuel in the same manner that gasoline engines do.
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Fuel cells are devices that convert chemical energy in this case hydrogen directly into electrical energy water and heat.
Hydrogen internal combustion engine cars are different from hydrogen fuel cell cars.
Instead it can be simply refueled in 3 to 5 minutes at a hydrogen station.
A fuel cell vehicle fcv such as the clarity fuel cell is a long range all electric vehicle that uses a fuel cell stack to create electricity on demand.
Put enough motor in a honda clarity and it could hit those 0 60 times also.
Good efficiency levels.
The grand total is a 62.