Like the first Volt, this Volt E-Flex concept uses an electric motor to propel the vehicle, but a hydrogen-fuelled fuel cell provides much of the electrical power instead of an internal combustion engine. The fuel cell can recharge the battery pack or it can provide power directly to the electric motors to provide extended driving range. The vehicle can still be plugged in to charge the battery and it will operate on battery power only, but when combined with a fuel cell that also provides electricity, the battery pack needs to be only half the size on one used on a typical hybrid vehicle. Hydrogen may be the fuel for the future. [Larry Burns] sees hydrogen and electricity as interchangeable. Hydrogen can produce electricity and electricity can produce hydrogen. Current world hydrogen ...
In the FCX's case, the eureka moment came when Yozo Kami, executive chief engineer of the FCX, literally turned Honda's fuel cell stack on its head. In 1999, Honda's fuel cell stack was large (requiring 4.7 cubic feet to house), weighed 202 kilograms and had an output of 60 kilowatts. By 2003, output had risen to 86 kW and the mass had dropped to 96 kg, but size still represented a significant problem -- large enough, in fact, to necessitate an SUV-like vehicle to accommodate it. The breakthrough seems so simple. Conventional fuel cell stacks lie horizontally in the vehicle, consuming valuable space. The V Flow stack stands vertically between the FCX's front seats. Re-orienting the stack not only reduces its size, it eliminates a major drawback: When the fuel cell combines hydrogen and ...
Ballard, who had a doctorate in geophysics, took existing technology and sparked a "renaissance" for the hydrogen fuel cell, said his longtime friend and business partner Paul Howard. Howard had worked with Ballard since 1979 and was a partner in Ballard Power Systems and Ballard's later ventures. In 1998, poor health forced Ballard to step aside as chairman of Ballard Power Systems. Ballard received honorary degrees from several universities and was a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. Scientific American magazine named Ballard Business Leader of the Year in 2002.
I think people were a little bit naive then about how long it takes to get a technology into a car and then into the hands of a consumer," says Noordin Nanji, vice-president and chief customer officer at Ballard Power Systems, the Vancouver-based fuel-cell pioneer. "There was a lot of expectation about the passenger-car market and that was because Ford and DaimlerChrysler invested in Ballard," says John Tak, chief executive officer of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Canada, a government-industry technology group. "There was a lot of expectation about the passenger-car market and that was because Ford and DaimlerChrysler invested in Ballard," says Tak.
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This is a real fundamental advance, it is a completely different way to think about dealing with hydrogen," says chemist Douglas Stephan, head of the team which describes the chemical reaction in the journal Science today. "What you want to be able to do is burn the hydrogen in your car and go to a station and recharge your storage tank with hydrogen," says Stephan. Hydrogen is also at the heart of one of the most commonly used chemical reactions in the world, the "hydrogenation" that adds hydrogen to fertilizers, pharmaceuticals and oils widely used in foods.
Shareholders of Ballard Power Systems Inc. (TSX:BLD) voted Friday to approve the sale of the company's automotive fuel cell business to Daimler AG and Ford Motor Co.
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A measure of how good Kia's in-house fuel cell is can be found in the results of the 2007 Challenge Bibendum held this year in Shanghai, China. Among other things (everything from electric bicycles to solar-powered cars are there to strut their stuff), the competition pits makers of fuel-cell vehicles against one another in a number of disciplines -- everything from noise to fuel efficiency. Hyundai Kia Motors won the 2007 Challenge with a Hyundai Tucson powered by the same technology used in the Sportage. It earned straight As to pip the Mercedes-Benz A-Class FC to the post. This is why Kia is well underway developing its next-generation stack. When the company's 100-kW fuel cell debuts, it will arrive in a vehicle specifically designed for the purpose -- a Sorento-sized vehicle riding...
The F 600 HyGenius is Mercedes-Benz's futuristic-looking fuel cell-powered vehicle. Using a 115-horsepower electric motor that produces 258 pound-feet of torque at Rev One, a lithium-ion battery pack, a four-kilogram hydrogen tank and a fuel cell capable of a cold start down to -25C, the F 600 boasts an equivalent fuel economy of just 2.6 litres per 100 kilometres and a range of 400 km. It's also quite silent in operation, which cuts the growing noise pollution problem and boasts good off-the-line performance and a comfortably functional interior. Factor in that it produces zero emissions and the F 600 At Circuito Monteblanco, a modern track just outside Seville, Mercedes had everything from the upcoming M 450 Two-Mode BlueHybrid (a technology it shares with BMW, Chrysler and General Mo...
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