fuel cells

[johnm]

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses Rollout In China and Germany
Posted: 15 Nov 2009 06:17 PM PST

Currently, hydrogen fuel cells for the transportation industry lend themselves well to fleet vehicles, forklifts and buses. These vehicles have a central hydrogen refueling station and don’t stray too far from this station.

Across the continents, hydrogen fuel cell buses are rolling out in higher numbers. Take for instance the two hydrogen fuel cells buses that are rolling out and being trialed in the Northeast of china Last year I had talked about the Chinese opening the Beijing Hydrogen Park for the 2008 Olympics.

China had rolled out 20 Volkswagen Passat Lingyu FCVs to showcase in this worldwide event. The hydrogen buses that China is piloting is a project between the University of Sunderland, UK and Shanghai Shen Li High Technology.

Meanwhile, half a world away in Hamburg, Germany the Mercedes-Benz Citaro FuelCELL-Hybrid bus has made its debut on the streets. The bus uses two of the same fuel cell systems as the Mercedes-Benz B-class F-cell cars plus it uses a The field trial of the Citaro hydrogen fuel cell buses are part of the European Union HyFLEET:CUTE plan. In addition, Hamburg will also receive by 2010, 20 more Daimler B-Class F-CELL cars. The introduction and field trials of the hydrogen buses and cars are part of the European Union plan to significantly expand the EU Hydrogen highwas system by 2015.

Fuel cell vehicles finish 707-mile demonstration run in Japan

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 to Tokyo on one tank of H2.

Over the course of the trip the three vehicles covered 706.5 miles and consumed 28.8 kg of hydrogen. That works out to an average of 73.6 miles / kg. One kg of hydrogen has roughly the energy equivalent of one gallon of gasoline, so the mileage works out to about 73-74 mpg.

The drive was organized by the Japan Hydrogen and Fuel cell project. While all three of the automakers are developing plug-in battery electric vehicles, all three also continue to work on fuel cells. Both Toyota and Honda maintain that they feel hydrogen remains the best long term solution for full function vehicles.

jm
_______________________________________
How dare people criticize unsubstantiated beliefs with science and logic, that's rude!