Fuel Cell Cars

A fuel cell vehicle is a vehicle that uses a fuel cell to power an electric drive system.
Fuel cell cars. The few models of fuel cell vehicles already available on the market cost around usd 80 000 for a mid or upper mid range vehicle. 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. There are a range of reasons why hydrogen fuel cell cars are still expensive. Refueling a fuel cell vehicle is comparable to refueling a conventional car or truck.
That s almost twice as much as comparable fully electric or hybrid vehicles. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles combine the range and refueling of conventional cars with the recreational and environmental benefits of driving on electricity. Although it s an electric vehicle there is never a need to charge the car with a plug. There are also hybrid vehicles meaning that they are fitted with a fuel cell and a battery or a fuel cell and an ultracapacitor for hicev see list of hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles for a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of fuel cell vehicles see fuel cell vehicle.
Currently toyota leads the industry in this technology achieving the highest power output while dramatically reducing the system s price and size from its previous fuel cell vehicles. The stack generates power by combining hydrogen with oxygen from the outside air. It shares its body and interior with the hybrid variant of the. Good efficiency levels.
Pressurized hydrogen is sold at hydrogen refueling stations taking less than 10 minutes to fill. 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. A fuel cell vehicle fcv or fuel cell electric vehicle fcev is an electric vehicle that uses a fuel cell sometimes in combination with a small battery or supercapacitor to power its onboard electric motor fuel cells in vehicles generate electricity generally using oxygen from the air and compressed hydrogen most fuel cell vehicles are classified as zero emissions vehicles that emit only.
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. The fuel cell stack.